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: 1836Texas 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 SouthThese 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) fromthe Confederacy- Military Defeat and ReconstructionReconstruction (1867-74):- Military Occupation- Black Enfranchisement- Many Confederate military officers and officials barred from holding