HIST 226 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Railroad Commission Of Texas, Conditionality, Sharecropping
25 Oct 2016
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Lower south confederate states: louisiana, south carolina, mississippi. Texas originally like mississippi in 1890 but by 1950 it was quite different: mississippi remained rural with agriculture, but texas was becoming urbanized. Realities of texas is that by the 1890s cotton was more valuable than oil. Oil had a sense of opportunity, a sense of hopefulness. Memory the romance of oil versus the reality of cotton. Oil was the american dream while cotton was a southern dream. Politics and big money of oil and cotton. The money from oil traveled into politics. Cotton was taken through houston, cotton was growing. Some of these owners entered into politics to influence legislation. Oil and cotton connected texas beyond its physical borders. New tools and techniques were needed to produce oil and cotton: texas became a key figure in providing tools to the rest of the world, texas cotton companies were connected throughout the world. Because of oil and new technological developments.
