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    Secession Final Decision Paper – Guadalupe County Guadalupe County has voiced their demands and the residents are in favor of secession and as their representative, the vote will be cast to secede. The citizens of Guadalupe County Texas have made this vital decision concerning the future of their state because they ultimately feel it is necessary for their wellbeing. The reasons that Guadalupe County residents have asked the vote for secession to be cast is because their basic needs are not…

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    Genius of Texas Erica Grieder. PublicAffairs, 250 West 57th Street, 15th Floor, New York, NY 10107, copyright 2013. 284 pages. Big, Hot, Cheap, and Right What America Can Learn from the Strange Genius of Texas, by Erica Grieder, breaks Texas down into its basic components in order to explain to non-Texans what Texas truly is. Grieder’s covers four main topics in her book. One of the topics she talks about is the economy. A major event that Grieder discusses is the Texas miracle,…

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    On February 26, 1946, Heman Marion Sweatt attempted to register as a law student at the University of Texas (UT) Law School. Sweatt was accompanied by a delegation from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) which included: R.A Hester, Lulu White, and Dr. B. E. Howell. The group was met by President T. S. Painter and other university officials. Painter tried to explain to Sweatt that there was nothing available to him except out-of-state scholarships, Hester…

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    the construct of whiteness in Texas in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries affected the structure of society. Neil Foley is the Robert H. and Nancy Dedman Chair in History at Southern Methodist University. His research concerns race and civil rights in Mexico and the American Southwest. Foley structures his book chronologically, beginning with the Texas Revolution in the first chapter and ending with the 1930s and 1940s. He focuses his study on Central Texas to examine the effects of the…

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    working people to be part of the old three hundred. He would get 67,000 acres of land because an empresario got 67,000 acres of land for settling 200 families in texas. He also got elected as for the provisional government that texas had made.Stephen f austin helped texs out in the texas revolution.Austin took temporary command of the texas army in the siege of bexar.Austin also tried running for president. Austin felt confident that he could win the election against sam houston and henry…

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    Essay #2: The Texas Governor and the President Over the years, it has been said that Texas has a very weak governor compared to other states. It has also been said that some people believe that the governor should have more power and that they should be a state 's equivalent to the nation’s president. Here, we will first analyze the differences and similarities between the Texas governor’s power versus the power of the United States president. This will allow us to further discuss whether the…

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    The War was a result of the United States Annexation of Texas. Texas was its own Republic from 1836 through 1845 after winning it war for Independence. Mexico although never recognized its independence while the United States did recognize Texas as a sovereign country in 1837 but it did decline to annex the territory. Mexico originally permitted a few hundred Americans to move into its territories of which settled in some areas of Texas and New Mexico. It was the Austin Family who originally…

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    January 1901 at Spindletop Texas has been permanently changed. The discovery of oil has not just changed the economics in Texas it has changed how Texans act, think, and live their lives. Without the impeccable change, oil has brought people in Texas, their lives would be colossally different. One thing that happened after the discovery of oil was social change. This means that the way people were treated or the way they lived their lives changed dramatically. Oil in Texas was not only a source…

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    Texas Constitution Essay

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    State constitution of Texas with particular attention to the current state constitution A constitution is a collection of fundamental principles which guides on how a state or a country is to be governed or ruled. Texas Constitution is a basic governing document of the state of Texas. The present Texas Constitution was established in 1876. It is the seventh constitution in the Texas’ history. State constitutions are vital since they manage a few matters that are not stated in the United States…

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    Willingham's Innocence

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    Executing an Innocent Man " Death row” , this quotation remind me of a story that happened in Texas in 1991 for Todd Willingham, as detailed by the Travis County District Court of Texas. The latter was executed as he was found guilty of the murder of this three children in a fire that took place at their home. The official document also emphasizes that the wrongful execution of Willingham is a tragedy and must never happen again. Thus there are two objectives to this document. The first is the…

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