Vollentine Elementary School

. While Texas had won its independence political battles raged between two factions of the new Republic the nationalist faction led by Mirabeau B Lamar advocated the continued independence of Texas the expulsion of the Native Americans and the expansion of the Republic to the Pacific Ocean Their opponents led by Sam Houston advocated the annexation of Texas to the United States and peaceful co-existence with Native Americans the conflict between the factions was typified by an incident known as the Texas Archive War. ! As of 2010 65.8% (14,740,304) of Texas residents age 5 and older spoke only English at home while 29.2% (6,543,702) spoke Spanish 0.75 percent (168,886) Vietnamese and Chinese (which includes Cantonese and Mandarin) was spoken by 0.56% (122,921) of the population over the age of five.

; Spring Valley Village Land use politics District 9 Al Green Democratic 2004 Alief Southwest Houston Houston's Southside. . London seen from St Paul's Cathedral after the German Blitz 29 December 1940, Traces Stephen F Austin was the first American empresario given permission to operate a colony within Mexican Texas, [icon] Because Houston is on the Gulf of Mexico the city has a small chance of being hit by hurricanes or tropical storms every hurricane season (June through November).