History of the United States I / Unit 11 USH1 1536 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Texas Grows
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The idea
The population of Texas nearly tripled in the ten years between eighteen thirty-six and eighteen forty-six.
In practice
Nearly twelve thousand enslaved Africans brought to Texas by American slaveholders by eighteen forty.
Where people slip
The territory in which Mexico had forbidden slavery became a slave society within a decade of independence.
Your place on the trail
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