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! . ; . The Museum District's cultural institutions and exhibits attract more than 7 million visitors a year. Notable facilities include the Museum of Fine Arts Houston Museum of Natural Science the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston the Station Museum of Contemporary Art Holocaust Museum Houston and the Houston Zoo, Two-thirds of all Texans live in a major metropolitan area such as Houston the Dallas-Fort Worth Metropolitan Area is the largest in Texas While Houston is the largest city in Texas and the fourth largest city in the United States the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area is larger than Houston.

4.4 Stadia Many (estimate of about 1 in 70 (1.4%) being the national average for 1860) of the Anglo-American settlers owned slaves Mexico granted Texas a one-year exemption from the national edict of 1829 outlawing slavery but Mexican president Anastasio Bustamante ordered that all slaves be freed in 1830 to circumvent the law the colonists converted their slaves into indentured servants "for life." by 1836 there were 5,000 enslaved African Americans in Texas. 12.4 Economic and demographic change Tornadoes, During the late 1970s Houston had a population boom as people from the Rust Belt states moved to Texas in large numbers the new residents came for numerous employment opportunities in the petroleum industry created as a result of the Arab oil embargo With the increase in professional jobs Houston has become a destination for many college-educated persons most recently including African Americans in a reverse Great Migration from northern areas. Texas self-perception Houston Texas Business Directory By 1913 twelve oil companies had located themselves in Houston most notably Humble Oil Company which is now ExxonMobil Howard Hughes was born in Humble Texas where the oil company started President Woodrow Wilson opened the Port of Houston in 1914 74 years after the digging started Service started with the Satilla a ship that ran from Houston to New York New York World War I put the gasoline-combustible automobile into widespread use causing oil to become a precious commodity However the war caused the amount of tonnage arriving in the Port to drop After the war the rice business fell flat causing many Japanese-Americans to find other work or to move out of Texas!