Oil, Prohibition, and Women's Suffrage!

in this presentation

• *The oil community
• *Rights
• *Poverty
• *Fighting to improve
• *Companies

the Oil community

• *oil becomes a huge franchise
• *Texas has many oil wells; very profitable
• *Texas oil rush, many people come
• Bermont's (home of the first Texas oil rig) population grew from 10,000-50,000 in months because of oil rush

rights

• Child labor is often used in feilds
• Several women's rights movements occured these mostly involved work rights and wanting to be equal to men
• children's rights movements occurred as well, these were about children not wanting to be forced to work
• Blacks and Latinos enslaved

poverty

• *even though people make money on oil some people are very poor
• *Many rural areas have no electricity
• *5,000 people died in World War 1
• *Hastily constructed oil facilities often leaked and polluted nearby land

fighting to improve

• *Women fought for the right to work
• *alcohol sales banned in many counties; this was supposed to decrease the crime rate.
• *Tejanos fight for better education for their children
• *child labor laws passed

companies

• *Many early, small companies are still important
• *people came to drill wells, lay pipes, and work in refiners
• *first well was expected to produce 5 barrels per day, it produced over 100,000

summary

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