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After receiving notice from Juan de Grijalva of gold in the area of what is now Tabasco the governor of Cuba Diego de Velasquez sent a larger force than had previously sailed and appointed Cortes as Captain-General of the Armada Cortes then applied all of his funds mortgaged his estates and borrowed from merchants and friends to outfit his ships Velasquez may have contributed to the effort but the government of Spain offered no financial support, 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; . The city of Houston was founded by land speculators on August 30 1836 at the confluence of Buffalo Bayou and White Oak Bayou (a point now known as Allen's Landing) and incorporated as a city on June 5 1837 the city is named after former General Sam Houston who was president of the Republic of Texas and had won Texas' independence from Mexico at the Battle of San Jacinto 25 miles (40 km) east of Allen's Landing. After briefly serving as the capital of the Texas Republic in the late 1830s Houston grew steadily into a regional trading center for the remainder of the 19th century, Like most of the South the Texas economy was devastated by the War However since the state had not been as dependent on slaves as other parts of the South it was able to recover more quickly the culture in Texas during the later 19th century exhibited many facets of a frontier territory the state became notorious as a haven for people from other parts of the country who wanted to escape debt criminal prosecution or other problems Indeed "Gone to Texas" was a common expression for those fleeing the law in other states Nevertheless the state also attracted many businessmen and other settlers with more legitimate interests as well. . 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), The Dutch sacked Bahia in 1604 and temporarily captured the capital Salvador, Houston Texas Business Directory Within Harris County hospital services for the indigent and needy are provided by the Harris County Hospital District a separate governmental entity Harris County Hospital District operates three hospitals: LBJ General Hospital Quentin Mease Community Hospital and Ben Taub General Hospital as well as many clinics. Other languages spoken include German (including Texas German) by 0.33% (73,137) Tagalog with 0.29% (64,272) speakers and French (including Cajun French) was spoken by 0.25% (55,773) of Texans. Reportedly Cherokee is the most widely spoken Native American language in Texas.

Houston Texas Business Directory Cinco Ranch (mostly in Fort Bend County), Mestre Jacome was a Majorcan cartographer induced by Portuguese prince Henry the Navigator to move to Portugal in the 1420s to train Portuguese map-makers in Majorcan-style cartography. 'Jacome of Majorca' is even sometimes described as the head of Henry's observatory and "school" at Sagres. As of U.S Census figures current as of 1997 9% of residents in Harris County did not own automobiles This figure does not include people who own cars but do not have enough money to repair the automobiles As of that year while the average income of all residents of the county was $41,000 (equivalent to $64,000 in 2018) the average income of households without cars was $13,000 (equivalent to $20,300 in 2018). . Constable Precinct 5 Ted Heap Republican 11 Military advantages Racial composition 1970 1990 2000 2010 Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Houston Branch Religion Eastern Orthodox 0.5 Ports. . .