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Texas Life Main Ideas Key Terms and People 1 DO NOT EDIT--Changes must be made through “File info” CorrectionKey=TX-A Section 3 Texas Life Main Ideas Key Terms and People 1. Most people in the Republic of Texas lived on farms or • land speculators ranches, though some lived in towns. • denominations 2. Games, literature, and art provided leisure activities. • circuit riders 3. Churches and schools were social centers. • academies Why It Matters Today • Th é o d o r e G e n t i l z Education was a major concern for people in the Republic. Use current events sources to learn about education in the United States and other countries today. TEKS: 4A, 9A, 19B, 19D, 21B, 22D The Story Continues Before making their journey to Texas, many immigrants myNotebook read a book by David Woodman Jr. called Guide to Texas Use the annotation Emigrants. This handy guide had many tips. He advised tools in your eBook to take notes on settlers to bring a reliable rifle and a strong dog. Woodman life in Texas during offered one other important recommendation. “It would be Bleed Art Guide: the period of the All bleeding art should be extended fully to the bleed guide. Republic. best to carry tents . for covering, until the house is built.” Woodman also said it was important to bring farming tools, a wagon, and comfortable clothing. Farming, Towns, and Transportation Most Texans, whether long-time residents or new immigrants, were Art and Non-Teaching Text Guide: Folios, annos, standards, non-bleeding art, etc. should farmers and ranchers, although their farms varied widely in size. Some never go beyond this guide on any side, 1p6 to trim. farms were large plantations, but most were small family farms. Small- scale farmers generally owned few or no slaves; they did most farm tasks on their own. Such tasks included clearing acres of land to build homes, planting crops, and creating pastures for animals. Texas farmers mostly grew food for their own needs, although they sometimes also produced a small cash crop—such as corn, cotton, wheat, rye, or oats—to sell for a profit. Text Guide: Cattle ranchers in the Republic raised animals for their own use or “Teaching” text should never go beyond this guide on any side. to sell to other Texans. Ranchers supplied townspeople and farmers with food, hides, and other materials. A few ranchers, such as Taylor White, drove their cattle to New Orleans to sell them in markets there. 286 Chapter 13 DO NOT EDIT--Changes must be made through “File info” CorrectionKey=TX-A As it had been in the Mexican period, ranching was popular #Texas Cities# among the Tejano population of the Republic. Tejanos continued to own ranches in southern Texas, east and south of San Antonio. Some free African Americans, such as Robert Thompson of Montgomery County, also owned ranches. Only in towns and cities did people have jobs that were not directly tied to farming or ranching. Small towns were home to blacksmiths, carpenters, tailors, and other artisans. Doctors, shopkeepers, silversmiths, cabinetmakers, and bankers operated in the largest towns. Towns like Houston and Galveston grew quickly as immigrants moved Dallas to them. Their founders had chosen locations that were beneficial for History: Dallas was founded by John Neely trade. Some towns farther inland such as Dallas also began to grow. Bryan in November 1841. Other new towns, though, such as Carolina, Geneva, Pompei, Bryan established a and Rome, were less fortunate. These towns were founded by land trading post that served the region’s growing speculators—people who bought large amounts of land in hopes of population. making profits. Speculators would sell small lots of the land at higher Population in 2012: prices to new settlers at higher prices than they had paid themselves. 1,241,162 (estimate) However, their attempts to make money failed when they could not Relative location: On the Trinity River in north- attract enough settlers to buy their land. In some cases, too, people central Texas were unable to pay for land they had agreed to buy. Cash was so rare in Region: Blackland Prairie Texas that “not a man of them can pay me a dollar,” as one miserable County: County seat of speculator complained. Dallas County Travel during the Republic was difficult. Only a few roads con- Special feature: The city is home to the Dallas ­Market nected towns in various parts of Texas. The government tried to build Text Guide:Center, the largest whole- new roads but had limited ­success. Texas roads remained poor, par- “Teaching” textsale should trade never go complexbeyond this guide in on anythe side. ticularly in bad weather. Travel by horseback or stagecoach was often world. Origin of name: Dallas is uncomfortable and dangerous. One traveler described the road condi- named for George Mifflin tions. “I was obliged in the worst places to relieve the mule by getting Dallas, a U.S. politician. off and leading for a mile at a time, with water to my knees and some- At the time Texas was annexed, he was the U.S. times to my britches pockets.” vice president. Because the roads were so bad, some rivers were used for Economy: Dallas is one of transporting goods and people, especially once the steamboat was the nation’s leading finan- introduced to Texas. The first steamboat to enter a Texas river was the cial and business centers. Many corporations moved Art and Non-Teaching Text Guide: Ariel. Henry Austin, Stephen F. Austin’s cousin, had begun operating their headquarters there Folios, annos, standards, non-bleeding art, etc. should this boat on the lower Rio Grande in 1829. He traded with Mexican afternever Worldgo beyond this War guide onII, any and side, 1p6 to trim. Dallas benefited from the merchants and later took the Ariel up the Brazos River. By the 1840s, postwar economic boom. several steamboats traveled the Brazos, ­Colorado, and Trinity Rivers. It soon became a major These boats shipped cotton and other farm products from Texas farms technology center. and brought in needed goods to Texas settlers. Few Texas rivers were Amarillo suited for steamboats, however. Floods, low water, and sandbars often Lubbock Ft Worth Dallas prevented travel. The lack of a good transportation system slowed the El Paso Midland Odessa Austin Houston growth of businesses and towns in the Republic. San Antonio Reading Check Finding the Main Idea How did geographic factors BleedGalveston Art Guide: Laredo All Corpusbleeding Christi art should be extended fully to the affect the economic development of Texas? bleed guide. Brownsville * * * * * Image Credit: ©Corbis Image Credit: Life in the Republic 287 DO NOT EDIT--Changes must be made through “File info” CorrectionKey=TX-B For entertainment, Texans gathered at local dances. Leisure, Literature, and Art Life in Texas was not all work. Texans also enjoyed a number of leisure activities. Some activities combined fun with work, such as building houses for newcomers, participating in log-splitting contests, hunting, and fishing. Other activities were all fun, such as songfests. These cel- Bleed Art Guide: ebrations featured popular tunes of the day, including “Yankee Doodle.” All bleeding art should be extended fully to the bleed guide. CONNECTING TO Dances were one of the most popular pastimes, whether small rural affairs or elaborate plantation balls. Many Texans also enjoyed concerts, The Arts horse races, and the theater. Théodore Gentilz Some citizens enjoyed literature and art, although both were scarce Théodore Gentilz was in frontier Texas. Most books published in the Republic dealt with Texas born in Paris in 1819 history or travel in Texas. Authors on these subjects included Mary and moved to Texas with Henri Castro. There Austin Holley and William Kennedy. Some Texans also wrote poetry, Art and Non-TeachingGentilz Texttraveled Guide: the including President Mirabeau B. Lamar. The most common publi- Folios, annos,countryside standards, non-bleeding looking art, etc. should for cations in the Republic were newspapers. In 1836 Texas had only one never go beyondsubjects this guide toon any paint. side, 1p6 toHe trim. journeyed far into West weekly newspaper, but by 1840 more than a dozen were being published. Texas, to the Gulf Coast, Artists, including portrait painters Charles Kneass and Jefferson and even into Mexico. He Wright, also lived in Texas. Many of the Republic’s artists were new enjoyed painting people and scenes that reflected immigrants. For example, French painter and surveyor Théodore the early settlement of ­Gentilz came to Texas with Henri Castro. Gentilz is known for his Texas. Look online to find scenes of Texas life. Some sculptors also worked in the Republic. examples of Gentilz’s Reading Check Analyzing Information How did Texans spend their paintings.Text Guide: How might his work“Teaching” help text should historians never go beyond learnthis guide on any side.leisure time? about early Texas history? 288 Chapter 13 NY DC/Art Resource, Washington, Art Museum, American (t) ©Smithsonian Image Credit: DO NOT EDIT--Changes must be made through “File info” CorrectionKey=TX-A Churches and Schools In the towns and countryside, Texans established many churches. After Texas independence, Roman Catholicism was no longer the official Daily Life state religion. Many Protestant denominations—organized religious Texas Schoolrooms groups with similar beliefs—soon built churches in the Republic. The The typical classroom in Methodist Church was the largest denomination, followed by the early rural Texas was very Baptist Church. Presbyterians and Episcopalians were also active in different from today’s schoolrooms. Most Texas. Catholicism remained the dominant religion in Galveston, San school buildings were Antonio, and Tejano communities along the Rio Grande. Most Czech one-room log cabins that lacked floors or and Polish immigrants also belonged to the Catholic Church.
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