WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
SECOND INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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wildcatters
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linesmen
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wellheads
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robber barons
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Detailed explanation-1: -Definitions of wildcat well. an exploratory oil well drilled in land not known to be an oil field. synonyms: wildcat. type of: oil well, oiler.
Detailed explanation-2: -wildcatter • -katt-er • noun. 1 : one that drills wells in the hope of finding oil in territory not known to be an oil field 2 : one that promotes unsafe and unreliable enterprises; especially : one that sells stocks in such enterprises.
Detailed explanation-3: -The term dates from the early oil industry in western Pennsylvania. Oil wells in unproven territory were called “wild cat” wells from mid-1870, and those who drilled them were called “wild-catters” by 1876.
Detailed explanation-4: -Wildcat well: exploration well drilled to establish (prove) whether petroleum exists in a potential petroleum deposit.