HIST 226 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Chain Migration, Anson Jones, Color Vision
20 Sep 2016
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Do not take facts from present day but look at them from the past. 1847 census non indians by race and ethnicity: It is not that the native americans were defeated in 1860, it is that their population was in decline and the movement of anglo americans into texas. There is so many anglos and african americans in texas because the international economy has a high demand on cattle, cotton, and sugar that is connected with a slave run industry. In a place like texas where land is cheap, who have to slaves or solitary small plot agriculture. Slave plantations were more efficient and more capitalist. As economic incentives increased so too did slavery. If it was not profitable, it would not have survived in texas. Economic collapse in the late 1830"s that ruined some crops. Germans came to texas as the result of artisan jobs that were not as lucrative in.
