List the three factors that motivated people to move to Texas in the mid-1800s.

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Pretend that you and your older brother run a small cotton farm in Alabama. You’ve decided you can do better on your own and have decided to move west to Texas. Select two of the factors you listed. In the space below, write a well-considered paragraph explaining why those factors were an important part of your decision.

"the royal proclamation of 1763"

answer: i looked it up

explanation: in 1955 in montgomery, alabama, a girl refused to give up her seat on a public bus. the girl was black, and the passenger looking to take her seat was white. this is a familiar tale, but it's not about rosa parks. the girl in the story is a 15-year-old high school student named claudette colvin, and this act of defiance occurred nine months before rosa parks did the same thing. colvin was arrested, and her case is what led to the u.s. supreme court's order for the desegregation of alabama's bus system. so, why don't we know colvin's name? "later i had a child born out of wedlock; i became pregnant when i was 16," colvin says. "and i didn't fit the image either, of, you know, someone they would want to show off.