Texas History

The North Central Plains region is mostly rural grasslands and small towns with a few large cities. Most of this prairie land is thick grasses. There is also a cross timbers area full of hardwood trees. Farming is common here because of the fertile soil. So there are many kinds of crops grown in this region. There also commonly short prairie grass. Climate in the region/area can be extreme. In the winters its cold, but in the summer it can be the hottest area in Texas. The average rainfall is 20 - 30 inches a year and during the spring there can be violent storms and tornadoes. Landforms in the Central Plains region of Texas is part of a larger Central Plains region of North America. It is made up of 3 separate areas. They are the Grand Prairie, the Cross Timbers, and the Rolling Plains. Each of these areas has a different type of landform, and they include prairies, forests, and

In 1822 after Austin had settled about 150 people, some had a hard time adjusting to the adversity in the Texas wilderness and left. In addition, Austin still needed the Mexican government to support his colony. In order to convince them to do so, Austin traveled through tiring and dangerous land for more than 1,000 miles to reach Mexico City. His patience and determination paid off in 1823 when the Mexican government passed the Imperial Colonization Law, which gave Austin the ability to settle more families in his colony from the United States. Finally, Austin was able to give ranching families, farming families, and single men up to more than 4,428 acres of land, and received 100,000 acres for himself. Ultimately, Austin successfully settled 297 American families in Texas, which is known today as the Old Three Hundred.

The state of Texas has a long and complicated political history. Texas is very unique in the aspect that it is the only state in the U.S to have once been its own country. This in turn makes the political history of the state of Texas very unique and interesting. In recent years the political stage in Texas has become the hot topic of not only the state, but the entire country. Gregg Abbot is the current governed of Texas, and the first of which to use a wheelchair since George Wallace of Alabama. Rick Perry the former governor of Texas, and Ted Cruz a state senator have both ran for the presidency in this past election. The 19th congressional district of Texas has quite a unique history as well. In 2003 the

Travis arrived in Texas in early 1831 after he acquired land from Stephen F. Austin. Shortly after arriving in Texas Travis grouped up with

However, Texas is the only state to have had the flags of six different nations fly over it. They were Spain, France, Mexico, Republic of Texas, Confederate States, and the United States. In 1836, five sites served as temporary capitals of Texas. These included Washington-on-the-Brazos, Harrisburg, Galveston, Velasco, and Columbia. In 1837, Sam Houston moved the capital of Texas to Houston. In 1839, the capital was moved to the new town of Austin . The capital city of Austin is located on the Colorado River in south-central Texas. The total population of Texas is 27.4 million people, which ranks it second highest in the United States behind California. Houston is the largest city and cities with more than one million people includes Houston, Dallas and San Antonio. (Heinrichs, 1999)

The cattle industry in Texas has been around from the time when the Spanish attempted to establish missions and assimilate the Native Americans

The Alamo is an 18th-century mission church in San Antonio, Texas It was originally built to be the church for the Mission San Antonio de Valero began as a Catholic mission and compound in 1718, one of many Catholic missions organized as part of the official Spanish plan to Christianize Native Americans and colonize northern New Spain.

In 1821 Moses Austin secured a colonization from Spain, which Mexico belonged to at the time. He died from the rigors of his return on June 10, 1821. He was only 28 years old. But his son kept on his father's work and in December, 1821, he led nearly 300 families to Texas. People wanted to come to Texas because there was basically free land. From that day on he has been known as the "Father of Texas". Then the newly independent Mexican government began giving huge land tracts

One thing that I am interested in is Texas’ Political Economy. There are three areas in Texas that have become major political economies. These are Houston, San Antonio, and the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Houston is the largest city in the state of Texas with an estimated population of 6.1 million. Railroads and the the ship channel have made Houston the largest city. Also with oil

The Texas War for Independence started on October 2,1635 and ended on April 21,1636. But a lot of stuff had happened to lead up to this war. For instance in 1820, Moses Austin, a U.S. citizen, asked the Spanish government in Mexico for permission to settle in little populated Texas. The land was granted, but Austin died soon after, so therefore his son, Stephen F. Austin, took over the project. In 1821, Mexico gained independence from Spain, and Austin negotiated a contract with the new Mexican government that allowed him to lead 300 families to the Brazos River. Under the terms of the agreement. The settlers were to be Catholics, but Austin mainly brought Protestants from the southern United States. Other

Sam Houston was born in Rockbridge County, Virginia March, 2 1793. In his family was immigrants from scotland. His father James Houston died while he was 13 years old. Some months later in his family store he ran away to the local indians the cherokee in 1809 while there he befriended one of the indians and thought of him like his father. He lived there for a while then his brothers found and returned him home to his widowed mother. There money was squandered and there leaving leaving virginia for Tennessee with their five slaves. There mother did not want to join the caravan because she didn't consider herself a ordinary pilgrim because of their scottish heritage. When they got to knoxville they weren’t treated as travelers either “ Friendly, hospitable folk were expecting James Houston’s kin from far beyond the

The California gold rush and World War II were the most influential events in creating California’s culture. The gold rush brought out entrepreneurs, and people looking for a new start. World War II called every state in the nation to contribute to the war. For California, this meant using its lands to produce agriculture, and its photographic landscapes to produce inspirational film which eventually led to the birth of Hollywood. The critical events that shaped Texas’s culture are its attempted secession from the union and its participation in World War II.

But, another extremely important event occurred in 1821 which strongly affected events in Texas when Mexico gained independence from Spain and declared itself a constitutional monarchy. In 1823, the government of Mexico underwent further change when it became a republic. Both changes in government caused delays for Stephen F. Austin, but he persevered and with some political help from Baron de Bastrop, the Old Three Hundred received their land grants in Texas. Similarly, as early as 1822, Green DeWitt petitioned the Mexican government for permission to settle four hundred families in Texas but was initially turned down. Stephen F. Austin and Baron de Bastrop used their influence with the Mexican authorities and De Witt received his colony in

Moses Austin(Stephen F. Austin Father) was the one who started Stephen F. Austin’s journey after Moses died.(1) Stephen F Austin decided to fulfill his father's dream and started a settlement at the bottom of the Colorado and the Brazos river. His settlement was called ‘’The Little Colony.’’(2) The Mexican government denied to distinguish stephen F.Austin's father's land grant because it had been made under Spanish constitution .Austin traveled to Mexico City to fix his

Stephen Fuller Austin was born in 1793 in Virginia. His father, Moses was very knowledgeable about lead. With this knowledge, he took his family to Missouri and founded the lead town of Potosi. During this time Austin went to school, and managed his father’s lead store. Austin worked his way up to become a Missouri territorial legislative. Short after, Austin moved to Arkansas and had plans to study law. Meanwhile, Austin’s father traveled to San Antonio to receive land grants to start immigrating families to Texas. Austin eventually agreed to help his father, but it was not what he expected. His father died before he could go any farther with his plans. Austin took over and got the grants from the Mexican government. It was made clear that