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C. Evacuation orders were issued for residents along the Brazos River near Houston, which has a population of more than 2 million. Approximately 2,600 inmates from two prisons along the river also were evacuated and sent to other prisons.
A. The town of Waterloo on the Colorado River was renamed Austin in honor of Stephen F. Austin, the "Father of Texas," and officially made the capital of the Republic of Texas in 1839. It became the state capital when Texas, a former Spanish colony and Mexican territory, was admitted to the Union in 1845.
D. The treaty that ended the Mexican–American War gave the U.S. undisputed control of Texas, established the U.S.-Mexican border of the Rio Grande, and ceded to the United States the present-day states of California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, most of Arizona and Colorado, and parts of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Wyoming.
B. Hawaii was a kingdom recognized by the United States until a group of American businessmen and residents staged a coup in 1893 and imprisoned Hawaii’s last queen in her palace. A company of U.S. Marines invaded the islands to “protect non-combatant American lives and property.” And, Hawaii was annexed by the United States in 1898.