Gabriel Tremblay Health Economist

. 9 Tourism Many Mexican soldiers retreated through the marsh to Peggy Lake.[Note 15] Texian riflemen stationed themselves on the banks and shot at anything that moved Many Texian officers including Houston and Rusk attempted to stop the slaughter but they were unable to gain control of the men Texians continued to chant "Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad!" while frightened Mexican infantry yelled "Me no Alamo!" and begged for mercy to no avail in what historian Davis called "one of the most one-sided victories in history" 650 Mexican soldiers were killed and 300 captured. Eleven Texians died with 30 others including Houston wounded. Aerospace Tejano is perhaps the most misunderstood of popular Houston musical styles because it is often classified as a style of Latin music although the word "tejano" means Texan reflecting the genre's roots in southern and central Texas during the 19th century Modern Tejano music is usually a fusion style combining the common historical elements of conjunto styles based around the accordion and bajo sexto with popular American styles --- most often country R&B or rock Within tejano music Houston forged a distinctively modern sound that began with pop and rock fusions using electronic keyboards and synthesizers the style was popularized in the 1980s and 1990s by the Grammy-award-winning Houston tejano band La Mafia but which was thrust into a national and international spotlight by young female performer Selena Selena's younger brother A.B Quintanilla through his band Kumbia Kings would further push the Houston style of tejano even further by fusing it with hip-hop to create songs that appealed to a younger more urban audience, 9.3 Reconstruction Some of Houston's oldest and most distinctive architecture are found in the northern sections of downtown as the city grew around Allen's Landing and the Market Square historic district where several representations of 19th-century urban architecture still stand, Stephen F Austin was the first American empresario given permission to operate a colony within Mexican Texas. . Houston first started shipping cotton lumber and other manufacturing products Alexander McGowen established the iron industry and Tom Whitmarsh built a cotton warehouse a fire ravaged Houston on March 10 1859 but the city rebuilt itself soon after.[citation needed], Spanish 29.21% U.S Navy SBD-5 scout plane flying patrol over USS Washington and USS Lexington during the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign 1943, Human infections gained worldwide transmission vectors for the first time: from Africa and Eurasia to the Americas and vice versa the spread of old-world diseases including smallpox flu and typhus led to the deaths of many indigenous inhabitants of the New World; ; . There are frequent "red tide" algae blooms that kill fish and marine mammals and cause respiratory problems in humans and some domestic animals when the blooms reach close to shore This has especially been plaguing the southwest and southern Florida coast from the Florida Keys to north of Pasco County Florida.

. 4.5 War breaks out in the Pacific (1941) 25 KBR 242 Rice University located near the Museum District and Texas Medical Center is a private tier-one research university and the most selective institution of higher education in Texas, The Nichols-Rice-Cherry House (which was moved from San Jacinto Street) is also located in Sam Houston Park it is an example of Greek Revival architecture and was built about 1850 by Ebeneezer B Nichols from New York. Between 1856 and 1873 it was owned by financier William Marsh Rice whose estate helped create Rice Institute (now Rice University) in 1912. When the Supreme Court ruled in 1923 that white primaries established by political parties were unconstitutional in 1927 the Texas state legislature passed a bill that authorized political parties to establish their internal practices the Democratic Party reinstated the white primary That law survived until 1944 before another Supreme Court case ruled that it was unconstitutional After 1944 the NAACP and other organizations worked to register black voters and participation increased But the major disenfranchisement continued until passage in the mid-1960s of civil rights legislation including the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to provide for federal oversight in areas in which historically minorities did not vote in expected numbers based on population, Jesse H Jones Hall for the Performing Arts, Representatives Name Party First Elected Area(s) of Harris County Represented. . .