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BEXAR, Texas in the 1890s: 1 through 4 of 4

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  1. Texas Homestead Law and the Economic Depression of the 1890s
    date 1890 to 1891map BEXAR, Texastags Government, Race-Relations, Women

    From her ranch in Texas, Jane Maverick wrote that the early 1890s were sad years for families throughout the nation as the country was undergoing an economic depression. The depression started in the North, Maverick reflected, and worked its way down the coast, finally hitting Texas. Prior to this time, the country was undergoing a post-war boom and Maverick explained ...there had been a perfect orgie...

  2. Neither Black nor White
    date May, 1896 to May 3, 1897map BEXAR, Texastags Mexican-American, Treaty Guadalupe Hidalgo, Texas-Mexico border, Borderlands, Tejanos, Texas Independance, Judge Thomas S. Maxey, Fourteenth Amendment, Constitution Republic TX, T.J. McMinn, Jack Evans, Right to Vote, In Re Ricardo Rodriguez

    In May of 1896, Ricardo Rodriguez entered a federal court in San Antonio, Texas, and initiated his application for citizenship of the United States thereby requesting the right to vote.  Since Texas declared its independence from Mexico and was annexed into the United States, Tejanos did not qualify for American citizenship because due to “an 1872 federal statute that ruled that only Caucasians...

  3. Rough Riders Mobilize for Battle
    date May 17, 1898map BEXAR, Texastags Government, War

    On May 17, 1898, Teddy's Terrors were preparing for battle. On that day, the Chicago Daily Tribune ran an article detailing the preparations of Colonel Theodore Roosevelt's First Volunteer Regiment of Cavalry, formerly known as Teddy's Terrors, which would move out to Cuba later that week. There had been a delay in the organization of a third squadron as two hundred Indian Territory troops were late...

  4. Creation of Texas Regiment for Service in the Phillipine-American Way
    date March 3, 1899map BEXAR, Texastags War

    Raised specifically for duty in the Philippines, the Thirty-third Infantry regiment of the United States Volunteers became the most famous combat unit to serve in the Philippine-American War, which lasted from 1898 to 1902. The U.S. had purchased the Philippines from Spain at the end of the Spanish-American War in 1898; however, Filipinos had been fighting for their independence since 1896 and refused...