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Governor Lawrence Sullivan Ross had to personally intervene to resolve the Jaybird-Woodpecker War (1888-1889) among factions of Democrats in Fort Bend County; at bottom it was a racial conflict the majority population was black by a large margin and had been electing county officers for 20 years But the white elite Democrats wanted their own people in power Conflict became violent and the Jaybirds ordered several blacks out of town Tensions increased and a total of seven people were killed in the fall of 1889 the Democratic Party created "white-only pre-primary elections," which in practice were the only competitive contests in the county and thus disenfranchised the blacks This situation lasted until the US Supreme Court ruling in Terry v Adams (1953) declared it unconstitutional in the last of the white primary cases, Establishment of Spanish colony, Houston Just after midnight on February 27 Urrea's men surprised Johnson's forces Six Texians including Johnson escaped; the remainder were captured or killed. After learning of Grant's whereabouts from local spies Mexican dragoons ambushed the Texians at Agua Dulce Creek on March 2. Twelve Texians were killed including Grant four were captured and six escaped. Although Urrea's orders were to execute those captured he instead sent them to Matamoros as prisoners. . Main article: French colonization of Texas Snow falls infrequently in the Magnolia City When it does occur it usually melts immediately on the ground with light accumulation on roofs and raised surfaces Only very uncommonly does it accumulate on the ground Since 1895 it has snowed 39 times in Houston at an average of about once every 3 years though some decades have several instances of recorded snowfall while others have only one each (e.g the 1930s and 1950s) and one decade where there wasn't any snowfall (1990s) the last recorded snowfall in Houston was on November 13 2018. There were more incidences of snow in the 1980s on average than any other decade recorded but the 2000s also witnessed more frequent and record-breaking snows. Plain unadorned granite structure with minimal features Only an entrance is visible, 14 Footnotes Communities Two historically important routes cross the Big Thicket: to the north lies the old cattle route or Beef Trail that ran from Tyler County to Louisiana; to the south is the Spanish Trail or the Atascosito Road that parallels modern Highway 90 and Interstate 10 from Liberty to Orange. 5.1 Texian retreat: the Runaway Scrape Away from the coast the terrain begins to exhibit the rolling hills of East and Central Texas Toward Central Texas the mixed pine and hardwood forests give way to the East Central Texas forests of post oak and grasslands, 7 Demographics The land comprising Mexican Texas between the Red Sabine and Nueces Rivers is shaded yellow the land between this boundary and the Rio Grande on the south and the Arkansas River on the north is shaded green and marked as "claimed territory".

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