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Prelude Texas racial breakdown of population 5 Portuguese exploration. 2 San Antonio Bexar 1,492,510, Bowie County (92,565), Gonzales 16 References (-8) 29 Montgomery (north); Houston Texas Business Directory, 6.1 Books Texas was very sparsely populated with fewer than 3,500 residents,[Note 3] and only about 200 soldiers which made it extremely vulnerable to attacks by native tribes and American filibusters in the hopes that an influx of settlers could control the Indian raids the bankrupt Mexican government liberalized immigration policies for the region Finally able to settle legally in Texas Anglos from the United States soon vastly outnumbered the Tejanos.[Note 4] Most of the immigrants came from the southern United States Many were slave owners and most brought with them significant prejudices against other races attitudes often applied to the Tejanos Mexico's official religion was Roman Catholicism yet the majority of the immigrants were Protestants who distrusted Catholics, Main article: Climate of Texas; Architecture Art Dance Fashion Literature Comics Poetry Music Sculpture Theater Low birth weight The knowledge of wind patterns and currents the trade winds and the oceanic gyres in the Atlantic and the determination of latitude led to the discovery of the best ocean route back from Africa: crossing the Central Atlantic to the Azores using the winds and currents that spin clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere because of atmospheric circulation and the effect of Coriolis facilitating the way to Lisbon and thus enabling the Portuguese to venture farther from shore a manoeuvre that became known as the "volta do mar" (return of the sea) in 1565 the application of this principle in the Pacific Ocean led the Spanish discovering the Manila Galleon trade route. . .

Houston Heights World War II Memorial, Two historically important routes cross the Big Thicket: to the north lies the old cattle route or Beef Trail that ran from Tyler County to Louisiana; to the south is the Spanish Trail or the Atascosito Road that parallels modern Highway 90 and Interstate 10 from Liberty to Orange, Map of northern part of Gulf of Mexico. Although Santa Anna's troops had been thoroughly vanquished they did not represent the bulk of the Mexican army in Texas an additional 4,000 troops remained under the commands of Urrea and General Vicente Filisola. Texians had won the battle due to mistakes made by Santa Anna and Houston was well aware that his troops would have little hope of repeating their victory against Urrea or Filisola as darkness fell a large group of prisoners were led into camp Houston initially mistook the group for Mexican reinforcements and shouted out that all was lost, Two attached concrete and glass office towers one with an irregular shape Both have uniform horizontal bands of windows alternating with the concrete, In 1999 the Houston-based Enron Corporation began construction of a 40-floor skyscraper Designed by Cesar Pelli & Associates and Kendall/Heaton Associates and completed in 2002 the building was originally known as the Enron Center the company collapsed in a well-publicized manner in 2001 and the building became officially known by its address 1500 Louisiana Street. . Hardy Toll Road 1960s Muslim 1 4.4 Statehood Native 0.2% 0.4% 0.6% 0.7% 6 El Paso El Paso 683,080 Texas has 3,700 named streams and 15 major rivers with the Rio Grande as the largest Other major rivers include the Pecos the Brazos Colorado and Red River While Texas has few natural lakes Texans have built over 100 artificial reservoirs. . . While Texas had won its independence political battles raged between two factions of the new Republic the nationalist faction led by Mirabeau B Lamar advocated the continued independence of Texas the expulsion of the Native Americans and the expansion of the Republic to the Pacific Ocean Their opponents led by Sam Houston advocated the annexation of Texas to the United States and peaceful co-existence with Native Americans the conflict between the factions was typified by an incident known as the Texas Archive War. Geology 4.4 County government Main article: Culture of Texas, 11.3.1 Firearms and crossbows The phrase is often used to describe the area appearing in a newspaper column in the Palestine Herald-Press and in tourist guide by Mike Dougan, Greater Houston possesses a hub-and-spoke limited-access highway system in which a number of freeways radiate outward from Downtown with ring roads providing connections between these radial highways at intermediate distances from the city center the city is crossed by three Interstate highways Interstate 10 Interstate 45 and Interstate 69 (commonly known as U.S Route 59) as well as a number of other United States routes and state highways Major freeways in Greater Houston are often referred to by either the cardinal direction or geographic location they travel towards Highways that follow the cardinal convention include U.S Route 290 (Northwest Freeway) Interstate 45 north of Downtown (North Freeway) Interstate 10 east of Downtown (East Freeway) Texas State Highway 288 (South Freeway) and Interstate 69 south of Downtown (Southwest Freeway) Highways that follow the location convention include Interstate 10 west of Downtown (Katy Freeway) Interstate 69 north of Downtown (Eastex Freeway) Interstate 45 south of Downtown (Gulf Freeway) and Texas State Highway 225 (La Porte or Pasadena Freeway).