Conclusion
New Arrivals from America
- Once in the United States, the population of Texas grew rapidly
- The Texas Homestead Law allowed settlers to get land by living on and improving it
- The national census in 1850 counted 212,592; by 1860 it was at 604,215
- How much did it grow?
- Most of the new comers were from Georgia, Tennessee, and Virginia
The Salt War
- The El Paso Salt War began in the late 1860s
The El Paso Salt War