Houston is home to the largest Muslim population in Texas and the Southern United States as of 2012. It is estimated that Muslims make up 1.2% of Houston's population as of 2016 Muslims in the Houston area included South Asians Middle Easterners Africans Turks and Indonesians in 2000 there were over 41 mosques and storefront religious centers with the largest being the Al-Noor Mosque (Mosque of Light) of the Islamic Society of Greater Houston, 12 Further reading As part of the Cotton Kingdom planters depended on slave labor in 1860 30% of the total state population of 604,215 were enslaved in the statewide election on the secession ordinance Texans voted to secede from the Union by a vote of 46,129 to 14,697 (a 76% majority) the Secession Convention immediately organized a government replacing Sam Houston when he refused to take an oath of allegiance to the Confederacy. . . . Residents of counties along the Rio Grande closer to the Mexico-United States border where there are many Latino residents generally vote for Democratic Party candidates while most other rural and suburban areas of Texas have shifted to voting for Republican Party candidates; In 1900 Texas suffered the deadliest natural disaster in U.S history during the Galveston hurricane on January 10 1901 the first major oil well in Texas Spindletop was found south of Beaumont Other fields were later discovered nearby in East Texas West Texas and under the Gulf of Mexico the resulting "oil boom" transformed Texas. Oil production eventually averaged three million barrels per day at its peak in 1972.
After a series of United States victories the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the two-year war in return for US$18,250,000 Mexico gave the U.S undisputed control of Texas ceded the Mexican Cession in 1848 most of which today is called the American Southwest and Texas's borders were established at the Rio Grande. . Energy The University of Texas at El Paso The Texas First Court of Appeals and the Texas Fourteenth Court of Appeals since September 3 2010 are located in the 1910 Harris County courthouse. Previously they were located on the campus of the South Texas College of Law. (33.7) 89.1 The ship that truly launched the first phase of the discoveries along the African coast was the Portuguese caravel Iberians quickly adopted it for their merchant navy it was a development based on African fishing boats They were agile and easier to navigate with a tonnage of 50 to 160 tons and one to three masts with lateen triangular sails allowing luffing the caravel particularly benefited from a greater capacity to tack the limited capacity for cargo and crew were their main drawbacks but have not hindered its success Limited crew and cargo space was acceptable initially because as exploratory ships their "cargo" was what was in the explorer's discoveries about a new territory which only took up the space of one person. Among the famous caravels are Berrio and Caravela Annunciation Columbus also used them in his travels, Historically Houston has been a center of Protestant Christianity being part of the Bible Belt. Other Christian groups including Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Christianity and non-Christian religions did not grow for much of the city's history because immigration was predominantly from Western Europe (which at the time was dominated by Western Christianity and favored by the quotas in federal immigration law) the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 removed the quotas allowing for the growth of other religions; . .
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