Chapter 9 LIFE IN EARLY TEXAS (1820-1835)

1. Chapter 9LIFE IN EARLY TEXAS(1820-1835) Section 1: Texas Fever Section 2: Daily Life on The Frontier Section 3: Trade and Transportation Section 4: Government and Society

2. SECTION 1: Texas Fever OBJECTIVES • Analyze why many U.S. settlers went to Texas and identify where they and other groups settled. • Explain how settlers got to Texas and chose their land.

3. SECTION 1: Texas Fever WHY U.S. SETTLERS CAME • To escape hard times and debts • Escaping criminal charges • U.S. creditors and authorities had no power in Texas • Cheaper land; easier payment terms WHERE THEY SETTLED • Fertile Brazos, Colorado, and Trinity River valleys along the Gulf Coast • East Texas

4. SECTION 1: Texas Fever HOW SETTLERS TRAVELED AND CHOSE THEIR LAND • On foot and on horseback • By covered wagon • By flatboats on rivers and oceangoing steamships • Chose land by suitability for farming • Climate, soil fertility, access to water, and appearance were factors in their choice • Proximity to hostile American Indians; Piney Woods and Gulf Coast Plain were popular locations

5. SECTION 2: Daily Life on The Frontier OBJECTIVES • Describe the types of houses that settlers built in Texas during the 1820s and the early 1830s. • Discuss what the clothing and diet of settlers in Texas were like at that time. • Explain what religion and education were like in early Texas.

6. SECTION 2: Daily Life on The Frontier TYPES OF HOUSES IN THE 1820s AND EARLY 1830s • Adobe or stone houses • Jacales – small huts made of sticks and mud • Log cabins and dogtrot cabins – a log home with an open passage separating two rooms

7. SECTION 2: Daily Life on The Frontier SETTLERS’ CLOTHING AND DIET • Wore clothing of buckskin, leather or cotton • Ate game found locally and crops that grew well locally

8. SECTION 2: Daily Life on The Frontier RELIGION AND EDUCATION IN EARLY TEXAS • Education was usually at home or abroad • Few public and private schools • No organized educational system • Privately worshipped as they pleased • Publicly supported the official religion of Catholicism

9. SECTION 3: Trade and Transportation OBJECTIVES • Identify the economic activities that were important to the Texas economy in the early 1800s. • Describe what transportation was like in Texas at that time.

10. SECTION 3: Trade and Transportation IMPORTANT ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES IN THE EARLY 1800s • Economy was based on farming and ranching; cotton was the main cash crop • Some craftspeople, merchants; some commercial centers; engaged in free enterprise • Traded by barter • Exported some products and had a little manufacturing

11. SECTION 3: Trade and Transportation TRANSPORTATION IN EARLY TEXAS • Few roads and in poor condition • Few navigable rivers • Ports located in the Gulf of Mexico (Galveston Bay) connected Texas to other regions but did not solve internal transportation problems

12. SECTION 4: Government and Society OBJECTIVES • Explain how the Mexican Constitution of 1824 affected Texas. • Analyze why the issue of slavery began to cause conflict.

13. SECTION 4: Government and Society MEXICAN CONSTITUTION OF 1824 • Formed the state of Coahuila y Texas • Gave states strong local control (federalism – the distribution of power between central and regional governments) • Roman Catholicism became the official state religion

14. SECTION 4: Government and Society CONFLICT OVER SLAVERY • Many colonists believed slavery was necessary for the economy • Some feared that the Mexican government would ban slavery