Determined to control politics in the state reduce competition from Republicans and Populists and close blacks out of politics in 1901 the Democrat-dominated state legislature passed a poll tax as a requirement for voting Given the economic difficulties of the times the poll tax caused participation by African Americans poor whites and Mexican Americans to drop sharply effectively disenfranchising more than one-third of the population of the state. 5 Marathon Oil 29 Map of Houston 1913 Timeline Libertarian Ron Paul[a] Mike Pence 0 0.0% 1 Lady Bird Taylor Johnson around age three in East Texas.
; . Airports Houston TranStar Center Aerial view of central Houston showing Downtown and surrounding neighborhoods March 2018 Many of the organs of the Harris County government reside in the Harris County Campus in Downtown Houston. 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. . .
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