Jehovah's Witnesses 1 Approximately 1,000 Mexican reinforcements arrived on March 3 the following day a local woman likely Bowie's relative Juana Navarro Alsbury was rebuffed by Santa Anna when she attempted to negotiate a surrender for the Alamo defenders. This visit increased Santa Anna's impatience and he scheduled an assault for early on March 6. Many of his officers were against the plan; they preferred to wait until the artillery had further damaged the Alamo's walls and the defenders were forced to surrender. Santa Anna was convinced that a decisive victory would improve morale and sound a strong message to those still agitating in the interior and elsewhere in Texas. Racial violence continued by whites against blacks as they enforced white supremacy Despite this freedmen pursued education organized new churches and fraternal organizations and entered politics winning local offices By the 1890s more than 100,000 blacks were voting in state elections in 1896 and 1898 Republican Robert B Hawley was elected to Congress from the state by a plurality when most white voters split between the Democratic and Populist parties Democrats were determined to end competition by Republicans and Populists and reviewed what other Southern states were doing to disenfranchise blacks and poor whites Mississippi's new constitution of 1890 had survived a Supreme Court case although in practice it was highly discriminatory against freedmen, Map of the Colorado & Southern Railroad lines including the Fort Worth and Denver City lines in Texas; 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, Main article: Spanish Civil War Tropical Storm Allison dumped up to 37 inches (940 mm) of rain on parts of the city over a five-day period in 2001 and was the most destructive and costly natural disaster in Houston history prior to Hurricane Harvey Area flooding was catastrophic and widespread the storm completely overwhelmed the flood control system and caused 22 deaths in Houston and $6.05 billion (2006 USD) in damage It is the only tropical storm in history to have its name retired! Pollution Energy and oil (19 companies) (27.1) 71.2 Colleges and universities! Society 7.3 Blues Houston is considered to be a politically divided city whose balance of power often sways between Republicans and Democrats Much of the city's wealthier areas vote Republican while the city's working class and minority areas vote Democratic According to the 2005 Houston Area Survey 68 percent of non-Hispanic whites in Harris County are declared or favor Republicans while 89 percent of non-Hispanic blacks in the area are declared or favor Democrats About 62 percent of Hispanics (of any race) in the area are declared or favor Democrats the city has often been known to be the most politically diverse city in Texas a state known for being generally conservative. As a result the city is often a contested area in statewide elections in 2009 Houston became the first U.S city with a population over 1 million citizens to elect a gay mayor by electing Annise Parker, Main article: Republic of Texas I-69 (TX).svgUS 59.svg Interstate 69/U.S Highway 59 a.k.a - Eastex Freeway going NE or Southwest Freeway going SW. In the aftermath of the Hurricane Katrina disaster about 200,000 New Orleans residents resettled in Houston Soon following Katrina was Hurricane Rita a category 5 hurricane which caused 2.5 million Houstonians to evacuate the city the largest urban evacuation in the history of the U.S, 3.3 Japanese invasion of China (1937), 1950 596,163 55.0% 11.3 Oil Houston Texas Business Directory. . As Houston and the rest of the country recovered from the Great Depression art-deco style theaters of the late 1930s were built in many residential neighborhoods across the city in addition to the River Oaks neighborhood movie theaters like the Alabama Tower Capitan and Ritz-Majestic Metro were several of the venues where Houstonians sought entertainment the Alabama serves as a prime example of adaptive reuse the repurposing of architecture considered obsolete in terms of modern usage Opening as a Bookstop bookstore in 1984 after the original theater closed the building was later converted into Houston's first Trader Joe's specialty grocery store in 2012 the grocer took pains to preserve much of the building's original architectural splendor including its original terrazzo-tile front entrance as well as its second-floor balcony, Airports The revolution began in October 1835 after a decade of political and cultural clashes between the Mexican government and the increasingly large population of American settlers in Texas the Mexican government had become increasingly centralized and the rights of its citizens had become increasingly curtailed particularly regarding immigration from the United States Colonists and Tejanos disagreed on whether the ultimate goal was independence or a return to the Mexican Constitution of 1824 While delegates at the Consultation (provisional government) debated the war's motives Texians and a flood of volunteers from the United States defeated the small garrisons of Mexican soldiers by mid-December 1835 the Consultation declined to declare independence and installed an interim government whose infighting led to political paralysis and a dearth of effective governance in Texas an ill-conceived proposal to invade Matamoros siphoned much-needed volunteers and provisions from the fledgling Texian Army in March 1836 a second political convention declared independence and appointed leadership for the new Republic of Texas.
(31.7) 80.8 Collegiate athletics have deep significance in Texas culture especially football the state has twelve Division I-FBS schools the most in the nation Four of the state's universities the Baylor Bears Texas Longhorns TCU Horned Frogs and Texas Tech Red Raiders compete in the Big 12 Conference the Texas A&M Aggies left the Big 12 and joined the Southeastern Conference in 2012 which led the Big 12 to invite TCU to join; TCU was previously in the Mountain West Conference the Houston Cougars and the SMU Mustangs compete in the American Athletic Conference the Texas State Bobcats and the UT Arlington Mavericks compete in the Sun Belt Conference Four of the state's schools claim at least one national championship in football: the Texas Longhorns the Texas A&M Aggies the TCU Horned Frogs and the SMU Mustangs, Texas 249.svg State Highway 249 a.k.a - Tomball Parkway going from Tomball and SE or Tomball Tollway going from Tomball and NW. The late Paleozoic mountains collapsed as rifting in the Jurassic period began to open the Gulf of Mexico Pangea began to break up in the Triassic but seafloor spreading to form the Gulf of Mexico occurred only in the mid and late Jurassic the shoreline shifted again to the eastern margin of the state and the Gulf of Mexico passive margin began to form Today 9 to 12 miles (14 to 19 km) of sediments are buried beneath the Texas continental shelf and a large proportion of remaining US oil reserves are here At the start of its formation the incipient Gulf of Mexico basin was restricted and seawater often evaporated completely to form thick evaporite deposits of Jurassic age These salt deposits formed salt dome diapirs and are found in East Texas along the Gulf coast. . . 6.1 Books Goose Creek CISD Movie theaters, Museum of Fine Arts Houston Former United States Senators: Comprehensive Universities (Tier 3). 13 See also Tropical Storm Erin made landfall in August 2007 with heavy rainfall a total of 9 inches (230 mm) of rain fell elsewhere than George Bush Intercontinental Airport on August 16 and many roads and neighborhoods were flooded Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County Texas halted its light rail and bus services in view of the effects Four deaths in the city were attributed to the storm the Houston Fire Department reported 72 rescue operations, Houston has many examples of residential architecture of varying styles from the mansions of River Oaks and Memorial to row houses in the several wards a number of Houston's earliest homes are located in what is now Sam Houston Park Homes in the Heights have varied architectural styles including Victorian Craftsman and Colonial Revival Post-war housing constructed throughout Houston reflects many architectural styles.
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