Question

What group most benefited from new settlement in South Texas during the 1840s and 1850s

Answer 1

Planters/slave owners/landowners benefitted mostly from the new settlement in South Texas during the 1840s and 1850s.

After becoming a part of the United States post the Mexican-American War, Texas was a slave owning state which acknowledge slavery as legal in most areas. African Americans were often enslaved to work the land in this new American settlement.

Answer 2

German immigrants were the largest European group (followed by in South Texas and they were the most benefited during The New Settlement between 1840 and 1850.

Arriving mostly through the port of Galveston and looking to own vast extensions of land and slaves, they settled in close-knit communities.

On the other hand, Tejanos, Mexicans, Native Americans, and African-Americans - who had deep roots in the state - suffered discrimination, slavery, and seeing how the U.S. government forced Native Americans off their lands.