Oil had the biggest impact on Texas’s culture and history. The oil boom caused tons of people to rush to Texas to try to find oil of their own and get rich off of that kind of lifestyle. People of every kind came to try to strike an oil well, forever changing Texas’s culture and influencing Texas history. Every group of people that came to Texas had a diverse culture and way of life, and others took up those lifestyles as well. Texas is still a major contributor of oil to the world, and we have been since the oil boom; it is one of the major profits of Texas’s current industries. The time when oil was found and its purposes were discovered was a major event in the history of Texas, and it is something we still study and learn from. We have