Name: ______Date: ______Period: ______
Unit 8 People ID: Age of Oil
For each definition, identify the person being described. Please write the full names with correct capitalization. Use your Unit 8 Study Guide, Unit 8 Notes, and Chapters 21 & 22.
1. ______Won reelection as Texas governor by supporting women’s right
to vote in primary elections.
2. ______Organized the Texas Equal Rights Association to help bring
equality to all citizens regardless of race or gender
3. ______Drilled the first oil well in Texas near Beaumont.
4. ______Worked as a conservationist by replanting pine trees.
5. ______Austin resident appointed Postmaster General of the U.S. by
President Wilson
6. ______Galveston’s city representative of the U.S. Weather Bureau that
warned people of the coming storm in 1900.
7. ______Built the first oil refinery in Corsicana, Texas west of the
Mississippi ; pioneered the method of using natural gas to heat homes and provide lighting
8. ______Austin resident chosen to be President Wilson’s chief political
and most trusted advisor.
9. ______The first woman elected Governor of Texas in 1924.
10. ______Led the Mexican revolutionaries in northern part of Mexico.
Raided Columbus, New Mexico in March 1916.
11. ______Led 6,000 American troops to pursue Villa in Mexico. Also,
commander of American Expeditionary forces in WWI.
12. ______Elected president of the Austin Women’s Suffrage Association in
1915. Held powerful posts in Democratic Party and served as secretary of state under two different governors.
13. ______Austin resident chosen to serve in President Wilson’s cabinet as
U.S. attorney general
14. ______German diplomat who sent a coded telegram to the German
Representative in Mexico.
15. ______Elected superintendent of public instruction for Texas in 1918.
She raised school taxes and provided free textbooks to children.
16. ______Invented a rotary drill bit that could break up rock and drill
deeper for oil.