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In 1839 the Republic of Texas relocated its capital to Austin the town suffered another setback that year when a yellow fever epidemic claimed about one life out of every eight residents Yet it persisted as a commercial center forming a symbiosis with its Gulf Coast port Galveston Landlocked farmers brought their produce to Houston using Buffalo Bayou to gain access to Galveston and the Gulf of Mexico Houston merchants profited from selling staples to farmers and shipping the farmers' produce to Galveston. 11 External links Niels Esperson Building The River Oaks Theatre (31) 84 4.3 Encroachment. 5.4 Criminal law US President Franklin D Roosevelt and British PM Winston Churchill seated at the Casablanca Conference January 1943, Many areas in Harris County are served by Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County Texas (METRO) a public transportation agency headquartered in Downtown Houston. 6.5 Advances in technology and warfare After Texas was readmitted to the Union on April 16 1870 Houston continued its growth Houston became a port of entry on July 16 1870 Its new charter drew up eight wards Many freed slaves opened businesses and worked under contracts the Freedmen's Bureau stopped abuse of the contracts in 1870 Many African Americans at the time were in unskilled labor Many former slaves legalized their marriages after the American Civil War White legislators insisted on segregated schools After white Democrats regained power in the state legislature in the late 1870s they began to pass laws to make voter registration more complicated with the effect of disfranchising African Americans the elections of 1876 were accompanied in many southern states with fraud and violence to suppress black voting As white Democrats secured their power they passed Jim Crow laws to establish and enforce legal segregation across the state! . . . 12.1 Navigation 3 Information technology 316 Quanta Services, Religious affiliation in Texas (2014), Strategy In 2010 Site Selection Magazine ranked Texas as the most business-friendly state in the nation in part because of the state's three-billion-dollar Texas Enterprise Fund. Texas has the joint-highest number of Fortune 500 company headquarters in the United States along with California.

Water bodies William B Travis famous commander at the Alamo settled in Anahuac Chambers County In late December at Santa Anna's behest the Mexican Congress passed the Tornel Decree declaring that any foreigners fighting against Mexican troops "will be deemed pirates and dealt with as such being citizens of no nation presently at war with the Republic and fighting under no recognized flag." in the early nineteenth century captured pirates were executed immediately the resolution thus gave the Mexican army permission to take no prisoners in the war against the Texians. This information was not widely distributed and it is unlikely that most of the American recruits serving in the Texian army were aware that there would be no prisoners-of-war. . 4 Economy 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, 4.1 Caribbean South America Mexico and Central America colonization. 4 Austin Travis 947,890 KXLN Houston's Spanish language Univision and its "En Su Defensa" (in your defense) segments have garnered regional acclaim,[citation needed] and "En Su Defensa" month was proclaimed by Mayor Bill White in 2004 Led by Investigative reporter Patricio Espinoza the segment generated strong community following and historic ratings along with several Emmy awards through 2005.[citation needed], Constable Precinct 5 Ted Heap Republican 3.2 Sports and outdoors. On Palm Sunday March 27 Fannin Ward Westover and their men were marched out of the presidio and shot Mexican cavalry were stationed nearby to chase down any who tried to escape. Approximately 342 Texians died and 27 either escaped or were spared by Mexican troops. Several weeks after the Goliad massacre the Mexican Congress granted an official reprieve to any Texas prisoners who had incurred capital punishment. Much of Texas politics of the remainder of the 19th century centered on land use Guided by the federal Morill Act Texas sold public lands to gain funds to invest in higher education in 1876 the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas opened and seven years later the University of Texas at Austin began conducting classes, Texas population density map. 139 Jarvis Johnson Democratic 2016 North Houston and Aldine west of I-45 June 15 1976 "The Rainout". .