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The Alamo, which was originally named Mision San Antonio de Valero, served as a home to religious missionaries and their Indian converts for many years. Construction of the Alamo had begun on 1724. In 1793, Mexican officials separated San Antonio's five missions and distributed the rest to the Indian residents. These people continued farming the fields that were once the mission's and participated in the growing community of San Antonio In the early 1800s, the Spanish military stationed a…

stuffy old house and tell stories about his life as a texas ranger in the battles of salado creek, hondo river, mier, black bean incident/mexican american war, monterey, comanche wars, and the american civil war. The black bean incident was where the texians would line up and eventually find a little table with a medium sized cloth bag filled with beans, for every 10, black beans there was 1 white bean, if you chose a white bean yu were considered lucky and were just taken prisoner, however if…

The painting by Eric J. Garcia which is named “remember” instantly caught my eye during my visit to the Mexican Art Museum because I have been doing a project on the Alamo for another class. The painting itself was created in 2005 and is oil on canvas and it very vivid in the actual meaning and to an average art observer, it should be easy to depict the actual meaning of the battle going on. The artist uses many different techniques to resemble a historic moment, the painting itself has historic…

The Manifest Destiny The manifest destiny was the belief that Americans thought it was a God-given right to expand our continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. During the 1800s, many Americans began to settle in the western frontier which most of it was uncharted territory. Through several readings I will be able to define the manifest destiny and how it was accomplished. The main concepts of the manifest destiny were that it was God-given right that the people of the United States…

When you hear the words Texas Rising, what do you think of? Is it the Alamo, Mexicans, or is it the Texas Revolution? Well if you named one of these, then you are right. In the miniseries of Texas Rising, it is based on the Texas Revolution against Mexico and the Texas Rangers. It also tells the story of how the Texas Rangers were created. In episode one, it starts off with an overview of all the people getting killed in the Alamo. During the Alamo, Emily West watches her husband get killed by…

Historians face one of the big dilemmas concerning American society that values freedom yet they could support slavery and other forms of coercion such as Indian Removal Act and the forced takeover of Mexican land. Slave owners and supporters believe that the powerful should be free to coerce the less powerful. Those who opposed slavery believed that enslaved people should be free of coercion. There are many reason American society would support slavery have become popular and a mainstream in…

The Louisiana Purchase Let us take a trip back in history to look at the Louisiana Purchase. At the very beginning of the 17th century, France traveled the Mississippi River valley and thereby established scattered settlements in the region. By the middle of the 18th century, France was powerful and controlled a large portion of what is now known as the United States. The Louisiana Purchase which transpired in 1803 was basically a land deal between the United States and France with the US…