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Texas Guide for Tourist

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Texas CHRONOLOGY The Mexican Revolution leads to massive Mexican migration to the United States. The manifesto El Plan de San Diego calls for armed struggle against exploitation and the return of lands to Mexican Americans. Passage of the Immigration Act of 1917 curbs migration into the United States by requiring an entry tax and a literacy test. Cruz Azul Mexicana is founded in San Antonio. The organization aids impoverished Mexican Americans and emphasizes education. Texas’s white primary act formally disenfranchises many impoverished Texans. Congress creates the U.S. Border Patrol. The New York stock market crashes, and the Great Depression begins.

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Texas Map Tourist Attractions

editor — Mon, 06 Jun 2016 07:00:00 +0000

Colonial Texas In 1519, Spanish explorer Alonso Alvarez de Pineda explored and mapped the Texas coastline. However, the first true exploration of Texas occurred some nine years later. A Spanish expedition, initially sent to explore Florida, became shipwrecked on the peninsula’s west coast. The castaways built a boat and attempted a Caribbean crossing, only to be shipwrecked on Galveston Island. Most of the crew members died or were enslaved by Native Americans; only Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca and four of his shipmates survived. After four years of captivity, Cabeza de Vaca and his companions escaped and traveled west in

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