In the rural areas, many people were farmers, but farming was hard work. Farmers worked for many hours a day and many months of the year. The summers were especially hard due to the extreme heat. Farmers could not always make enough money to support their families after all the hard work.

Toward the end of the 1800s and early 1900s, many farms did not have electricity or running water, although farm production increased as farmers began using new machinery. The higher production led to a drop in prices, and it continued to be hard for the farmers to pay off their debts. The long hours, struggle to make money, and the challenging life led some of these people to give up on farming and to move to the cities.

People were attracted to cities because there were jobs there. The cattle market, oil, and textile industries were popular in big cities, and this led to an increase in the cities’ population. Cities in east Texas grew the most. Houston built the Houston Ship Channel, which helped with oil refineries and factories that exported goods through the Gulf of Mexico. The factories and refineries offered many employment opportunities, attracting new residents to Houston.

The Federal Reserve System—a federal bank—moved to Dallas. Also, Dallas had a large cotton market that exported the crop throughout the nation and the world. This helped the city grow quickly.

San Antonio became an important military center. Businesses wanted the money associated with running the base, so they moved to the city.
Complete the organizer by identifying how different industries affected the growth of cities in Texas.
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