1. Chapter 13 Section 3

2. Economy
Ranching
Farming
Plantations

3. Trades and Professions
Trades- brick masons, blacksmiths, carpenters, and wheelwrights.
Professions- law, medicine, the ministry, and teaching.
Doctors, ministers, and lawyers arrived but often divided their time between their professions and farming.

4. Industry and Commerce Fuel Growth
The few industries in early Texas were located in towns or along major roads or rivers.
Most communities already had a sawmill for cutting lumber and a gristmill for grinding grain.
Over time Texans built brickyards, tanneries, iron foundries, cotton gins, soap factories, carriage factories, and textile mills.

5. Transportation Better Transportation Is Needed
Even local travel in Texas was difficult.
Some roads were Native American trails
Others roads were originally built in the Spanish and Mexican eras.
Almost all the roads were unpaved, and rains often turned them into mud.
Crossing streams was especially dangerous, and travelers had to be prepared to swim to safety.

7. Freight Wagon
Good: Most Common
Bad: Muddy Roads
Where: -All over

9. Stagecoach Good: Popular Bad: Expensive
Where: -Butterfield Overland Line crossed Texas

10. River Transportation Good: Cheap and Comfortable
Bad: Rafts and Sandbars Blocked
Where:
Colorado River
Buffalo Bayou, which connected Houston with the port of Galveston

12. Railroad Good: Fast Bad: Limited Area
Where: several railroads connected Houston with neighboring communities

14. Telegraph
In 1854 Red River Telegraph Company Shreveport, Henderson, Rusk, Crockett, Montgomery, Houston, and Galveston.
In 1856 another company began constructing lines from Galveston to San Antonio and Austin.

15. Newspapers
By 1860 there were more than 70 newspapers in publication. Most were printed only once a week, but there were several daily newspapers as well.

16. Religious Diversity Flourishes
Religion
Religious Diversity Flourishes
Roman Catholic faith
Protestant
Baptist
Presbyterian
Jewish