Alamo

Driving sixteen hours in a car with five other people just to go on vacation for about a week and a half! That’s what me and my family did when we decided to go to Corpus Christi, Texas for a couple weeks. My entire family and even my sisters boyfriend came. At first we weren’t sure what to expect when we were first told we were driving all the way down to the southern border of Texas. Even though it was long drive, the experience is one that none of us will ever forget in our lifetimes. I can

John W. Crockett, son of David “Davy” Crockett, was a well known government official on the U.S. House of representatives. He was born in Paris,TN and had long dark hair, fair skin, and wore a Mona Lisa smile. He was married to one Martha Crockett and had fourteen children. He was also a brother, half brother, or brother in law to six assorted males and females.He had a moderate life from the dates of 1807 to 1852 with the lifespan of 45 years of age.His wife outlived him and died in 1873.Furthermore

Leslie Groves was born in Albany, New York, on August 17, 1896. He attended the University of Washington for one year and then Massachusetts Institute of Technology for two years before entering West Point, from which he graduated in 1918. He was commissioned in the Engineers and took courses at the Engineer's School, Camp Humphreys (now Fort Belvoir), Virginia, 1918-20 and 1921, with time out for brief service in France during World War I. In 1931, Groves was attached to the Office of the Chief

Although I was born in San Antonio, my childhood life wasn’t spent in the Alamo City. Up in north Texas, there is a miniature city consisting of three thousand people named Nocona. The town was my childhood life until my mother fell into a deep depression. As a result, my mother was unable to hold a job or take care of my sisters and I. This resulted in my mother giving us up to my father in San Antonio. When arriving in San Antonio, my mother would tell me that she was going to come back for us

an American effort to develop a working atomic weapon during World War II. The creation and use of the atomic bomb brought together some of the world’s best scientists, as well as the insight of the U.S. military. Most of the work was done in Los Alamos, New Mexico, not in the New York City district that it was named after.

education, in behalf of the Edgewood Independent School District. MALDEF’s main concern was the way Texas funds public school, they pointed out the fact that he poorest districts in the state, had $38,854 in property wealth per student, while the Alamo Heights ISD, which is in the same county, had $570,109 per student. (TSHA, 2017) Furthermore, property-poor districts had a higher set tax rate that would amount to an average 74.5 cents per $100 a valuation to generate $2,987 per pupil, while richer

He tried to hold on to it but he only won a couple battles. One battle that was a very difficult fight was at the Alamo, which was a mission in San Antonio. Where he was able to kill all of the Texan defenders. At the Battle of San Jacinto, Santa Ana’s troops were defeated and he was captured. The leader of Texas, Sam Houston released Santa Ana after he promised to

acted as one of his close mutual friends, and thus his career began. After adolescence full of hunting and other outdoor activities, Benjamin McCulloch followed David Crockett to the Alamo, but they did not make it before the time of the Alamo’s fall. Because he failed to make it in time for the battle at the Alamo, he was forced to join Houston’s Army and retreat back into East Texas. In the battle of San Jacinto, McCulloch was in command of one of the Twin Sisters, two cannons that were raised

Moving West The Western Frontier Most western pioneers during the second quarter of the ninteenth century were American-born whites from the upper south and midwest. Only a few free African Americans joined in the migration. Most of the pioneers who made their way west on the Overland Trails traveled in family groups. By 1845, some 5,000 people were making the six - month journey annually. The Discovery of gold in California in 1848 brought some 30,000 pioneers along the oregon trail. By 1850, the

Reading Response #1 Megan Wroolie Reading the book Harvest of Empire by Juan Gonzalez, has been very informative to me and has changed my perspective on U.S. foreign policy. Each account of the families from the different Latino countries has similar underlying trends that can be found because of the U.S. involvement in their countries. Every single instance of U.S. involvement in Latin American countries seems to evolve around the idea of greed and profit. The U.S. is like a business that only