POLS 2312 1st Edition Lecture 4 Current Lecture Political Culture Understandings of The appropriate relationship between the government and the people The rights and the responsibilities of the people The obligations of the government The limits of government authority Northern Mexico circa 1776 Around 2 500 Spanish and Mexican settlers north of the Rio Grande Approximately 30 000 to 50 000 Native Americans No meaningful Anglo or Black presence Expanding American settlement in the Mississippi Valley Comanche raids from Texas into more settled parts of Mexico Beginning in the 1820s substantial numbers of Anglos began to move to Texas often bringing African American slaves Independence 1836 Texas and the United States Texas admitted to the Union as a slave state 1845 Mexican American War 1846 1848 Resulting in American capture of what is now the southwest U S assumed the Republic of Texas s debts Texas retained title to unsettled lands Boundary Act of 1850 Texas gave up extensive land claims in return for 10 million Session and Civil War The frontier of the Deep South These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute Alienation of the non slaveholding German population centered in the Hill Country from the Confederacy Military Defeat and Reconstruction Reconstruction 1867 74 Military Occupation Black Enfranchisement Many Confederate military officers and officials barred from holding office
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