Texas Grows
This is what Texas was able to do with the land when it became a state.
What is keep control, and the right to sell or give it away?
These were two of the reasons immigrants came to Texas.
What are new opportunities and what is escaping from problems in their home countries?
This is the kind of economy that most immigrants lived when they settled in Texas.
What is a subsistence economy?
Texas welcomed people from these different places.
What is Germany, Poland, southern United States, and other countries of Eurpose?
This is what made Texas great for farming.
What are rich natural resources?
These were what most immigrants were when they settled in Texas.
What are farmers and ranchers?
These were the two groups that disputed over the land in Texas.
What are the Comanche and the new immigrants to Texas?
This is how people in Germany learned about Texas.
What are books, like the one Prince Carl of Soms-Braunfels read?
Immigrants opened these in towns throughout Texas.
What are hardware stores, hotels, and/or mills?
This is the name of the treaty that was signed to settle dispute over the land in Texas.
What is the Meusebach-Comanche Treaty?
This is how the book that Prince Carl of Soms-Braunfels read described Texas.
What are land and waterways filled with resources?
This is the number of people that lived in Texas in 1847. This is the population 13 years later.
What is 140,000? What is 600,000?
This is the amount of land that was made available for settlement by the Meusebach-Comanche Treaty.
What is 3 million acres of land?
This is the name of the town founded in 1854 that is the nation's oldest permanent Polish settlement.
What is Panna Maria?
This is what immigrants did to Texas.
What is created a new Texas by bringing their cultures?