Changes in Texas

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Changes in Texas
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• Cotton was growing abundantly in Texas!

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• With Eli Whitneys cotton gin and James Watts
  steam engine, cotton production became much more
  profitable in Texas.

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Can you imagine approximately 4,000,000 wild
longhorns roaming on Texas ranges?
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• When Texans learned that people in the North
  needed meat, Texans diversified their economy by
  supplying cattle to markets in other parts of the
  United States.

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• Charles Goodnight and Jesse Chisholm both led
  cattle on trails, which were then named after
  them.

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• Patillo Higgins is remembered for discovering oil
  in Beaumont, Texas. Spindletop is the famous oil
  well that helped mark the beginning of the
  petroleum industry in Texas.

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• The railroads in Texas helped increase the number
  of exports from this state to the rest of the
  country. Many new people came on the railroad to
  live in Texas.