. . Native Americans and early Europeans 10.7 Legislative responses Skyscrapers President Woodrow Wilson opened the deep-water Port of Houston in 1914 seven years after digging began by 1930 Houston had become Texas' most populous city and Harris County the most populous county in 1940 the U.S Census Bureau reported Houston's population as 77.5% white and 22.4% black; . El Paso 92/67 33/21 57/32 14/0 Much of Houston's success as a petrochemical complex is due to its busy man-made ship channel the Port of Houston the port ranks first in the country in international commerce and is the sixth-largest port in the world Amid other U.S ports it is the busiest in foreign tonnage and second in overall tonnage Because of these economic trades many residents have moved to Houston from other U.S states as well as hundreds of countries worldwide, A reproduction of the original Come and take it flag which flew during the battle of Gonzales Houston Texas Business Directory!
. Support for the Confederacy was perhaps weakest in Texas; Elliott estimates that only a third of the white men in early 1861 supported the Confederacy Many unionists supported the Confederacy after the war began but many others clung to their unionism throughout the war especially in the northern counties the German districts and the Mexican areas Local officials harassed unionists and engaged in large-scale massacres against unionists and Germans in Cooke County 150 suspected unionists were arrested; 25 were lynched without trial and 40 more were hanged after a summary trial Draft resistance was widespread especially among Texans of German or Mexican descent; many of the latter went to Mexico Potential draftees went into hiding Confederate officials hunted them down and many were shot on August 1 1862 Confederate troops executed 34 pro-Union German Texans in the "Nueces Massacre" of civilians. (34) 97 In 2001 the wreck of U-166 was found in 5,000 feet (1,500 m) of water less than two miles from where it had attacked the Robert E Lee an archaeological survey of the seafloor before construction of a natural gas pipeline led to the discoveries by C & C Marine archaeologists Robert A Church and Daniel J Warren the sonar contacts consisted of two large sections lying approximately 500 feet apart at either end of a debris field that indicated the presence of a U-boat. . December 10 2008: Tied the earliest accumulating snowfall record Battle of Europe air operations.
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