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Texas history /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Willoughby, Larry
Corporate Author: Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum
Other Authors: May, Janice C.
Format: Book
Language:English
Language Notes:Glossary in English and Spanish.
Published: Orlando, Fla. : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Pub. Co., [2016]
Subjects:
Texas > History > Textbooks.
Texas.
History.
Textbooks.
Table of Contents:
  • The geographer's tools
  • A land called Texas
  • The regions of Texas
  • Texas Indians, beginnings-1700
  • The age of contact, 1492-1670
  • The Spanish colonial period, 1680-1760
  • Conflicts of empire, 1760-1821
  • Texas on the Mexican frontier, 1820-1835
  • Life in Mexican Texas, 1820-1835
  • The road to revolution, 1825-1835
  • The Texas revolution, 1835-1836
  • A new nation, 1836-1845
  • Life in the republic, 1836-1845
  • Texas faces foreign challenges, 1836-1845
  • Texas joins the United States, 1845-1860
  • Western expansion and conflict, 1845-1860
  • Life in a frontier state, 1845-1861
  • Texas and the Civil War, 1861-1865
  • Reconstruction, 1865-1877
  • The Indian wars, 1861-1880
  • The cattle kingdom, 1860-1890
  • Railroads and farming, 1870-1900
  • The oil boom, 1890-1920
  • Texas in the age of reform, 1870-1920
  • Texans at home and abroad, 1890-1920
  • Boom and bust, 1920-1939
  • World War II and the Cold War, 1939-1960
  • Texas in transition, 1960-1980
  • Contemporary Texas, 1980-present
  • Texas government, 1945-present
  • Local government and citizenship, 1845-present
  • The Texas economy
  • The governors and presidents of Texas
  • The Constitution of Texas
  • Facts about Texas
  • Atlas
  • Glossary
  • Spanish Glossary/Glosario.