History of Texas

Throughout history it has been a lot of movements in order to defeat injustice, and one of these movements was created back in the mid 1960’s in San Antonio. This book is divided into three different time-lapses and it tells us how the Mexican-American started to gain a place in the US with the Chicano movement. In the mid 1960’s San Antonio was ruled by the Anglo social and the high class. The Mexican-American motivated by the gang warfare, the seasonal flood, and the strike of the farm…

lead to them winning the championship football game. Race, family, and religion play large roles in the Dillon community. These roles define the community and the students and others within it. Race is a group of people that share the same culture, history, and language. In Friday Night Lights coach MacGill of the Panthers team “accidentally”…

Keystone Politics By Garrett Kizior History of the Keystone Pipeline Canada’s Athabasca River Basin is the home of one of the world’s largest stockpile of fossil fuels; bitumen. Bitumen, which lies beneath prehistoric boreal forests and peat bogs, is composed of oil, sand, and clay, and is often compared to thick tar. Because of its composition, bitumen is commonly referred to as tar sands The only method to remove the tar sands from the ground is to first inject hot steam into the earth until…

Jaime Jo US History 2 Ms. Bruno Native American Experience Chickasaw Tribe The Chickasaw tribes are said to be descended from a story of brothers, Chisca and Chacta. These people were known as “Flat Heads” because of their custom of the flattening of skulls of children in which they would put weight on their heads. Chickasaw lived around the northeastern area of Mississippi of the Tombigbee River. But as more settlers moved to North America, they were forced to move to Oklahoma. Also…

McCaffrey, the author of the historical novel “Army of Manifest Destiny: The American Soldier in the Mexican War 1846-1848”, writes about American soldiers during the Mexican-American War. The Mexican-American War was a huge contribution to the history of the United States and what it is today. He describes America’s first foreign war, the Mexican-American War, through the day-to-day experiences of the American soldiers in battle and camps. McCaffrey states “The purpose of the present work,…

Southwest Airlines Thesis Statement: Southwest Airlines have never made promises it could not keep and considering its history makes it obvious and clear that it has always been a company whose key characteristic or attribute was “trustworthiness”. Introduction A half a century ago, Rollin King and Herb Kelleher decided to join together and to start a different sort of airline. So, in 1967 South West Airlines was started. However, the company’s name at the time was Air Southwest and then…

second year in Tomball ISD. I walked into my second period, Texas History, with a Mrs. Brough. At first glance, Mrs. Brough seemed to be a little too excited and the state of her desk with several coffee mugs seemed suspicious. It was in this unorganized classroom and with this giddy teacher that I found my love of history. Mrs. Brough was a short and stout woman who never stopped smiling. You could tell she had a true passion for history when she spoke to us (her students). It was upon…

of the a Dust Bowl was simply drought. After most of the water had dried up there was a drought that lasted nearly 8 years. Without this water, there was nothing that could settle the dust. The dust storms targeted most parts of Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado, later this area was named The Dust Bowl. During the time of the Dust Bowl the dust storms discouraged many people, when the storms swept across the nation, they left nothing but destruction in their wake. Many of the…

Frederick Jackson Turner’s work is described by some as the single most influential piece of writing in the history of American History. From his perspective he laid out a theory to catalog his ideas and thoughts regarding the story of America and the move West. His argument entails the belief that every American generation returned “to primitive conditions on a continually advancing frontier line as the “meeting point of savagery and civilization”. His analysis attempts to categorize the past…

“The Underdogs” follows the rise and fall of Demetrio Macias and his group of rebels during the Mexican Revolution of the early nineteen hundreds. The novel charts Demetrio's rise from farmer to general of the northern rebel army, and his following decline and the fall of his army. The Mexican Revolution started as a series of local/personal fights, then turns into a national movement. Cervantes’ changes from the beginning of the novel to the end. “The Underdogs” is considered both a Latin…