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| When was texas first populated? |
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| What was the population growth like during the Pre-Annexation period of the Antebellum Epoch? |
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Time period: 1800-1821, and 1836-1845
Very slow population growth, only at 250,000 after 1850 |
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| What was the population growth like in the post-annexation period of the Antebellum Epoch? Why? |
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From 1845-1861, their was relatively fast growth
1.)No indians
2.)Political stability
3.)Supposed "land of oppurtunity" |
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| How did the population grow after the civil war, post-bellum, up to present day, split into periods. |
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from 1861-1870- pretty slow
from 1870-1930- moderately fast growth
from 1930-1940- slow, great depression
from 1940-present- moderately fast |
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| During what period did the Texan urban population remain nearly stagnant while the rural poplation grew fast? |
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| what year is marked by the increase of the Texan rural population after the long period of decline and stagnation? |
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| What were the regional dynamics, like which regions, of the population growth during the second half of the 19th century until 1930? |
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| Nearly all regions of Texas experienced fast growth. |
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| What were the regional dynamics, like which regions, of the population growth after WW2? |
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| Most of it occured in a few highly localized regions |
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| What was the “legacy of the frontier” in terms of the rural-urban population patterns? |
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Texas experienced a relatively late transition from the predominantly rural to predominantly urban state
- Overwhelming rural as late as in 1910
- Rural population is still predominant in 1940 |
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| 8. When did Texas pass the transition from predominantly rural to predominantly urban state? |
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| The Second World War (1941-1945) was the transitional period. |
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| What were the reasons for this transition from a predominantly rural to predominantly urban state? |
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•Demand for the wartime labor force in the large cities such as Houston and Dallas served as a trigger
•Three decades of the postwar period was characterized by the bankruptcy of small family-owned farms (1), development of the large-scale corporate agriculture (2), continuing industrialization and mechanization of the agricultural sector accompanied by the displacement of many farm workers (3). |
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| What were the external factors that contributed to the transition to predominantly urban state? |
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•Industrial growth attracted working force of other regions of the Nation.
•Contributing to the urban growth was the increasing international migration to the large Texan cities – mostly from Latin America and especially from Mexico |
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| Where were the contrasts in the distribution of the urban and rural population were especially pronounced and what are the reasons for it? |
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Texas is characterized by highly uneven population densities (map on slide 18). By 1970, 80% of the Texan population was urban but nearly a quarter of the State’s counties didn’t even have urban settlements.
The contrasts in the distribution of the urban and rural were especially pronounced in the West: while most of Texas’s counties with no urban population were in the West, many western counties had 75-100% of urban population!
The reason: Contrasting regional response to the harsh natural conditions. |
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| Explain the contrasting regional response to the harsh natural conditions? |
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| In many areas of West Texas the conditions were so harsh that they remained unattractive for the urban development. Consequently, they remained overwhelmingly rural. In those areas where some urban development occurred, the population flocked to the urban centers because cities and towns were able to provide them with some basic convenience conditions that were difficult or impossible to get in the desert. |
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| When was the beginning of the opposite trend to move rural growth? |
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| 1980 was the first year on your graph when the absolute rural population began to grow , although the ratio of the urban and rural population remained the same (80:20%), the rural population continued to grow since 1980 through 1980s and 1990s |
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| Why did the rural (or at least non-urban) population of Texas begin to increase after the long period of decrease and stagnation? |
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•Increasing number of middle-class and higher middle-class professionals and wealthy retiring baby-boomers chose to live in the countryside
•Some of the newly established high-tech industries (the computer industry, programming) emerge in the countryside
•Texas Hill Country between Austin and San Marcos - the region known for the highest (in Texas) concentration of the “country” lawyers and “frontier” programmers |
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