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Texans in 1909 marked an icon of progress with the construction of the first skyscraper west of the Mississippi the 190-foot steel-frame skyscraper was the 14-story Praetorian Building housing the Praetorian Insurance Company Dallas became the regional headquarters of the Federal Reserve in 1914 strengthening its dominance of Texas banking the city had reached 260,000 population by 1929 when the effects of the Stock Market Crash hit Texas causing a sharp drop in the prices of oil cotton and cattle; growth came to a standstill. Houston Texas Business Directory 4.3 Asia and Oceania colonization and the Pacific exploration Stafford MSD The Compromise of 1850 set Texas's boundaries at their present form U.S Senator James Pearce of Maryland drafted the final proposal where Texas ceded its claims to land which later became half of present-day New Mexico a third of Colorado and small portions of Kansas Oklahoma and Wyoming to the federal government in return for the assumption of $10 million of the old republic's debt. Post-war Texas grew rapidly as migrants poured into the cotton lands of the state.

. . The Brazos River straddles some of Houston's extreme western and southwestern suburbs particularly Sugar Land and Rosenberg Top 10 Non-English languages spoken in Texas. 7 References East Texas outcrops consist of Cretaceous and Paleogene sediments which contain important deposits of Eocene lignite the Mississippian and Pennsylvanian sediments in the north; Permian sediments in the west; and Cretaceous sediments in the east along the Gulf coast and out on the Texas continental shelf contain oil Oligocene volcanic rocks are found in far west Texas in the Big Bend area a blanket of Miocene sediments known as the Ogallala formation in the western high plains region is an important aquifer. Located far from an active plate tectonic boundary Texas has no volcanoes and few earthquakes, Carla (1961) Westfield Fire Station 2, The newly elected Texian delegates to the Convention of 1836 quickly signed a Declaration of Independence on March 2 forming the Republic of Texas After electing interim officers the Convention disbanded the new government joined the other settlers in Texas in the Runaway Scrape fleeing from the approaching Mexican army. After several weeks of retreat the Texian Army commanded by Sam Houston attacked and defeated Santa Anna's forces at the Battle of San Jacinto. Santa Anna was captured and forced to sign the Treaties of Velasco ending the war. .