Why Did Oil Make A Social Change In Texas

January of 1901 Texas seemed boring for those Texans that were there at the time, But the 20th century was just getting started when one drop of the gooey, black substance that changed Texas in seconds, Oil is its name! January, 1901, on a little hill called Spindletop oil sprouted into a beautiful rose. It made many opportunities in Texas and the US. Oil was used for lots of things like Asphalt (for paving roads), gasoline to fuel cars, trucks,etc. Oil would now be the economic engine for Texas, oil would make a gigantic impact on Texas as a whole. Oil, How did it make a social change for Texans and others? The social changes that oil did for texas were, it made more opportunities for African- Americans and Hispanics. Second, it gave Texas colleges more money to give students a better education,

supporting detail from document D with document citation Document D the background says “ Wink, Texas did not exist in 1925. Oil was discovered in 1926 and by 1926, Wink was suddenly on the map with an instant 3,500 people. Two years later, it was 6.000. A high school was built and major oil companies operating the area helped funded the football team and recruit players. Including a few young men said to be in their twenties. Weekend games -- complete with a huge marching band and after-- game suppers-- became the thing to do in Wink and were a source of tremendous community pride.” Oil and football don’t even have a similarity, but in this case they do! Football brung the community together as a whole the football team was very well know and because they were funded by oil companies they were even more successful. The people who funded basically paid for the jersey, stadium funds, uniform, equipment and etc. Football brought the community together and because of that it gave community pride and the oil impacted that because it was funded and gave people to be proud of their community and give back, This one gets 10