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  2. History of Mexican Americans in Texas - Wikipedia

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    TAMACC which stands for Texas Association of Mexican Americans Chamber of Commerce is an organization founded in 1975 to promote business, economic, and legislative opportunities for the Hispanic communities in Texas [17].TAMAAC have supported many bills that will help small hispanic business such as the 1991 Workers Compensation Bill and the ...

  3. Texians - Wikipedia

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    Texians were Anglo-American residents of Mexican Texas and, later, citizens of the Republic of Texas. Today, the term is used to identify early Anglo settlers of Texas, especially those who supported the Texas Revolution. Mexican settlers of that era are referred to as Tejanos, and American citizens of the modern State of Texas regardless of ...

  4. DeWitt Colony - Wikipedia

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    Settlers were supposed to own property or have a craft or useful profession, and all people wishing to live in Texas were expected to report to the nearest Mexican authority for permission to settle. [7] Approval for settlement contracts for Texas was the responsibility of the state government in Saltillo.

  5. Lake Creek Settlement - Wikipedia

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    The Lake Creek Settlement was located between the West Fork of the San Jacinto River (Texas) and the stream known as Lake Creek. It was the first Anglo-American settlement in what is today western Montgomery County, Texas. In July 1837, the town of Montgomery, Texas was founded in the middle of the Lake Creek Settlement, at the site of W. W ...

  6. De León's Colony - Wikipedia

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    1873. Bird's Eye View of Victoria, Texas. De León's Colony was established in 1824 in the northern Coahuila y Tejas state of the First Mexican Republic, by empresario Martín De León. It was the only ethnically Mexican colony founded during the Mexican period (1824-1835) that is located within the present-day U.S. state of Texas.

  7. History of Texas - Wikipedia

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    The German settlement in Mexico goes back to the times they settled Texas when it was under Spanish rule, but the first permanent settlement of Germans was at Industry, in Austin County, established by Friedrich Ernst and Charles Fordtran in the early 1830s, then under Mexican rule. Ernst wrote a letter to a friend in his native Oldenburg ...

  8. Brownsville Raid (1859) - Wikipedia

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    Brownsville was first established on the banks of the Rio Grande in 1848, during the Mexican–American War. [1] After the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Tejano, or Hispanic Texan, ranchers in southern Texas came into conflict with Anglo-American settlers, who filed specious claims on property, forcing the landowners into the newly introduced American courts to assert their property rights.

  9. Mexican Texas - Wikipedia

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    Mexican Texas is the historiographical name used to refer to the era of Texan history between 1821 and 1836, when it was part of Mexico. Mexico gained independence in 1821 after winning its war against Spain , which began in 1810.