HIST 226 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Tejano, Capitalism, Sharecropping
7 Oct 2016
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Little folk or country music prior to the 1920"s. Songs tell of an ideal texan: a cowboy. Overlay of facts that contradict or confuse the past. Creation of texas myth the alamo and steven f austin"s reburial in 1910. Dug up and held a ceremony and reburied at the state ceremony. Was in a grave from 1830 to 1910 and was unimportant until they dug him back up and people recreated him as an excellent western pioneer. North and south white soldiers met at gettysburg to reconcile the past but left out the. African americans, they were not included: sweeping african americans out of history. Moving west was the new american dream and pursuit. Americans began moving east to west in an a romantic way to save it from the savages . Many opportunities west, if you cannot make it in the east, then move west .
