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the start of the Texas Revolution, when the Mexican leader President General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, began to shift away from a federalist style of government, trying to start something akin to

In 1821, New Spain gained independence from Spain and later became Mexico. 835, 20,000 people moved to Coahuila and Tejas. The Texans had fought against the Mexicans and later became the war called The Alamo. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna was born in Jalapa, Mexico in 1794, in 1833 Antonio was elected President for Mexico, he served for many years and later on died in Mexico City, in 1876. On January 19

In The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate in chapter 16 the city of Fentress, Texas gets a telephone line that connects them to the state capitol of Austin, Texas which is approximately 45 miles away. This is a huge change for the residents of Fentress because they are finally able to communicate to another town without having to drive there. The telephone line is a sign that the city of Fentress is finally evolving to become a more modern city even though they are taking more time than the larger cities

San Joaquin River Restoration Project: Irrigating the Valley The San Joaquin River is the backbone of the San Joaquin Valley. The valley is not only the nation's most agricultural area but it is also one of the entire worlds. Millions depend on the crops that come form this luscious valley. The river has gone through many drastic changes over its illustrious lifetime. Once it was a magnificent 350 miles long it is now one of the nation's ten most endangered rivers. The river once flowed with

Case Study The Yokuts inhabited the San Joaquin valley in California. There were over 40 independent groups and each of them had a distinct name, dialect and territory. The San Joaquin Valley is bounded by mountains on the east, west and south and to the north flow the Kern and San Joaquin rivers into the ocean. The climate in the valley is hot with dry mild summers, semiarid winters and very minimal precipitation. Originally, the area was rich in a network of rivers, streams, lakes and sloughs fed by

The San Joaquin River Valley Project represents a comprehensive long term effort to restore the flow of the San Joaquin River. After reading the article, “River Plan Too Fishy for my Taste Buds” by Bill McEwen I chose and decided to use this article because it has plenty of reasonable facts. Bill McEwen emerged as veteran journalist who has worked in various positions for the Bee since 1980. He grew up in the community and knows how everything works. The article McEwen wrote operated and published

May, 2 1801 before James bowie grew into manhood and left for Mexico. 3.His family were in many community affairs, the family farmed and owned a gristmill. A gristmill grinds grain into flour. Later, his father purchased land along the Vermilion River where he developed a sugarcane and cotton plantation. The only Down side of this is that they owned and traded slaves. B. James bowie and his interesting hobbies 1. He was known to be a good hunter and fisher 2. He caught and road wild horses

An police officer have many duties to do.They have to responded 911 calls, investigate breaks in ,making arrest, direct traffic, and give first aid to victims in need. Most of the time, they are generally the first to respond to any emergency. Also, they are commissioned to keep citizens safe 24 hours a day and seven days a week. They not only have to protect the citizens, but they also have to protect themselves because being a police officer is very risky. Also officers incur a higher rate of

immediately broke up the court in Salem he then demanded the rest of the arrested people (which includes Tituba because she was held captive for thirteen months) be freed, but by then there were nineteen people who were hanged. In the video, the San Antonio Four, which include Elizabeth Ramirez, Cassandra Rivera, Kristie Mayhugh, and Anna Vasquez, are arrested for two young girls claiming they gang raped them. The girls were

This paper will review A Line In The Sand- The Alamo in Blood and Memory. This book was published by ‘The Free Press’ publication in the year, and was written by two authors, Randy Roberts and James S. Olson. In this book, Roberts and Olson present references towards the three battles of the Alamo. The three battles include the real battle of Alamo fought in the 1836, the early-twentieth-century Driscoll-De Zavala effort, and the concurrent historical and cultural warfare over the blockade. This