Dufferin Medical Clinic & Walk-In

Satellite image of Houston 2018, 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. . . Distribution of the main Native-American groups in Texas in the early 1500s The River Oaks Theatre. Native Americans determined the fate of European explorers and settlers depending on whether a tribe was kind or warlike. Friendly tribes taught newcomers how to grow indigenous crops prepare foods and hunting methods for the wild game Warlike tribes made life difficult and dangerous for explorers and settlers through their attacks and resistance to European conquest. Many Native Americans died of new infectious diseases which caused high fatalities and disrupted their cultures in the early years of colonization in the 19th century they resisted European and American expansion and there was frequent warfare After the American Civil War the United States Army was used to suppress resistance in the Indian Wars, Houston is considered an automobile-dependent city with an estimated 77.2% of commuters driving alone to work in 2016 up from 71.7% in 1990 and 75.6% in 2009 in 2016 another 11.4% of Houstonians carpooled to work while 3.6% used public transit 2.1% walked and 0.5% bicycled a commuting study estimated that the median length of commute in the region was 12.2 miles (19.6 km) in 2012. According to the 2013 American Community Survey the average work commute in Houston (city) takes 26.3 minutes a 1999 Murdoch University study found that Houston had both the lengthiest commute and lowest urban density of 13 large American cities surveyed and a 2017 Arcadis study ranked Houston 22nd out of 23 American cities in transportation sustainability. Harris County is one of the largest consumers of gasoline in the United States ranking second (behind Los Angeles County) in 2013.

Three loop freeways provide north-south and east-west connectivity between Greater Houston's radial highways the innermost loop is Interstate 610 commonly known as the Inner Loop which encircles Downtown the Texas Medical Center Greenway Plaza the cities of West University Place and Southside Place and many core neighborhoods the 88-mile (142 km) State Highway Beltway 8 often referred to as the Beltway forms the middle loop at a radius of roughly 10 miles (16 km) a third 180-mile (290 km) loop with a radius of approximately 25 miles (40 km) State Highway 99 (the Grand Parkway) is currently under construction with six of eleven segments completed as of 2018. Completed segments D through G provide a continuous 70.4-mile (113.3 km) limited-access tollway connection between Sugar Land Katy Cypress Spring and Porter. Laporte Tourism and recreation Within Mexico tensions continued between federalists and centralists in early 1835 wary Texians formed Committees of Correspondence and Safety the unrest erupted into armed conflict in late 1835 at the Battle of Gonzales. This launched the Texas Revolution and over the next two months the Texians defeated all Mexican troops in the region. Texians elected delegates to the Consultation which created a provisional government the provisional government soon collapsed from infighting and Texas was without clear governance for the first two months of 1836.