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2 days ago · An overview of the settlement of Texas in the early 19th century. American colonization gained impetus when the United States purchased the Louisiana Territory from France in 1803 and claimed title to lands as far west as the Rio Grande.
16 hours ago · PressReader. Catalog; For You; San Antonio Express-News. Politics seeps into decisions on textbooks 2024-06-20 - By Elizabeth Sander STAFF WRITER . The former science coordinator at Cypress-fairbanks Independent School District was “appalled” as she watched the conservative stronghold on the school board vote to remove 13 chapters from science, health and education textbooks last ...
20 hours ago · In the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, signed on February 2, 1848, Mexico gave up its claim to Texas and also ceded area now in the U.S. states of New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, California, and western Colorado. Texas claimed most of this additional area but later relinquished it in the Compromise of 1850.
3 days ago · New York saw 14,827, Houston had 7,923, and Los Angeles had 3,271 migrants fly into their cities. Texas challenged the program in court but lost. Florida is also fighting to end the program, which Gov. Ron DeSantis has previously called “secretive” and “illegal.”.
1 day ago · Throughout the 19th century there were mass migrations into Texas. One of the largest influxes occurred between 1821 and 1836, when an estimated 38,000 settlers, in response to promises of 4,000 acres (1,620 hectares) of land per family, trekked from the United States into the territory.
2 days ago · The Texas Rangers are an American professional baseball team based in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. The Rangers compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) West Division .
1 day ago · The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.
