Essay On Social Changes In Texas

In 1901 the world was changed by a hill, that hill was called Spindletop. Oil was found in Texas that day, which caused many big social changes. Social changes like community pride, new job opportunities, affordable universities, and a higher divorce rate. Oil continues to shape our world and our day-to-day lives. Oil has brought many changes to Texas. Oil has had a big effect to community pride. I'm giving this social change 10 minutes. I’m giving it 10 minutes because it changed towns, but isn’t the biggest change. Wink, Texas wasn’t even a town before the oil. It went from zero to 6,000 in only a four years. Then a high school was built and oil companies helped to fund a football team. The team won every game and had a 12 to zero ratio. They were …show more content…
While people went to work in oil, African and Mexican Americans went to East Texas. They went for better pay. Instead of getting ten dollars a week they can get that much in a day. They used the extra money to save for school. I'm giving this 20 minutes. The next social change i’m giving 30 minutes. I feel it had the biggest change to Texas. Cheaper university allowed many people to get higher paying jobs and help people of low income change their future. In Texas two universities were made from oil. Two million acres were eventually given to the universities. They didn’t seem to be worth much, but eventually made 4.4 billion by 2008. They created Texas A&M University and University of Texas. The next social change is fantastic but didn’t end up as a priority in my talk show. Divorce rates went up dramatically in places of copious amounts of oil. When oil was found in Winkler for example the divorce rates went from 22.9 percent to 35.7 percent from 19228 to 1929. In 1927 the divorce rates in Ector were 19.4 percent. In 1928 they were 47.7 percent. The rates everywhere went from one out of every five people to one in every two