Section 2: Daily Life on the Frontier CHAPTER 9 Life in Early Texas Section 1: Texas Fever Section 2: Daily Life on the Frontier Section 3: Trade and Transportation Section 4: Government and Society

Question: Why and how did U.S. settlers come to Texas? Texas Fever SECTION 1 Texas Fever Question: Why and how did U.S. settlers come to Texas?

Texas Fever SECTION 1 GONE TO TEXAS Why U.S. Settlers Came: How They Traveled: escaping hard times, debts escaping criminal charges U.S. creditors and authori- ties had no power in Texas Texas had cheaper land; easier payment terms on foot by covered wagon on horseback by flatboats on rivers by oceangoing steamships

Question: What were religion and education like in early Texas? SECTION 2 Daily Life on the Frontier Question: What were religion and education like in early Texas?

Daily Life on the Frontier SECTION 2 Daily Life on the Frontier Education in Texas under Mexican Rule Religion in Texas under Mexican Rule • available: • problems: home schooling; a few small private and community schools; wealthier children schooled in the United States • official: • actual: • Protestant activity: Roman Catholicism most Tejanos Catholic; most U.S. settlers Protestant, and privately worshipped as pleased. few funds or good teachers; no public school system; little time for school for farm children; slaves denied schooling plentiful; traveling preachers; missionaries

SECTION 3 Trade and Transportation Question: What were the economic activities and transportation routes in Texas in the early 1800s?

Trade and Transportation SECTION 3 Trade and Transportation Economy Transportation economy based on farming and ranching; cotton main cash crop some craftspeople, merchants; some commercial centers; engaged in free enterprise trade mainly by barter exports—cattle, corn, cotton, cowhides, furs, horses, pork, salt; imports—U.S. goods little manufacturing few roads and in poor condition few navigable rivers ports on the Gulf of Mexico (e.g. in Galveston Bay); connected Texas to other regions but did not solve internal transportation problems

Question: How did the Mexican Constitution of 1824 affect Texas? SECTION 4 Government and Society Question: How did the Mexican Constitution of 1824 affect Texas?

Government and Society SECTION 4 Government and Society Mexican Constitution of 1824 EFFECT formed state of Coahuila y Texas gave states strong local control Roman Catholicism the official religion The capital was far from Texas. It was hard for Texans to partici-pate in state government. Some Texans were angered. Local government could adjust to meet local needs; particularly those of U.S. settlers. Local government became a mixture of Mexican and U.S. practices. Texans, and in particular U.S. settlers, publicly claimed to be Catholic but pri-vately worshiped as they pleased.

Chapter Wrap-Up CHAPTER 9 1. Why did so many Texas settlers like how the Constitution of 1824 divided government power? 2. Do you think that Texas settlers who broke Mexican laws were good citizens? Provide reasons for your answer. 3. How did poor transportation networks in Texas affect the region’s economy?