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In the recorded history of what is now the U.S. state of Texas, all or parts of Texas have been claimed by six countries: France, Spain, Mexico, the Republic of Texas, the Confederacy during the Civil War, and the United States of America.
9. Nov. 2009 · Date of Statehood: December 29, 1845. Capital: Austin. Population: 25,145,561 (2010) Size: 268,597 square miles. Nickname (s): Lone Star State. Motto: Friendship. Tree: Pecan. Flower:...
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The Republic of Texas was born on March 2, 1836, when 58 delegates at Washington-on-the-Brazos signed the Texas Declaration of Independence. The first Texas Congress met at Columbia in the fall of 1836 to set the border with Mexico at the Rio Grande, a decision based on an aggressive interpretation of the Louisiana Purchase. The river remained ...
- Everything Really Is Bigger in Texas.
- Six Flags Have Flown Over Texas.
- Texas Could Have Been Even larger.
- Texas Hosted What Was Arguably The Last Battle of The Civil War.
- The Deadliest Natural Disaster in U.S. History occurred in Texas.
- Two Presidents Were Born in Texas (and Neither Was Named Bush).
- 'Don’T Mess with Texas' Started as An Anti-Litter message.
- Texas Was Once The Domain of Democrats.
- Texas Could Split Into Five States.
At 268,596 square miles, Texasis the second largest state behind only Alaska. With 25.1 million people, according to the 2010 U.S. Census, it is the second most populous behind only California. Texas has the largest state capitol building and the highest speed limit (85 miles per hour along a stretch of toll road between Austin and San Antonio); it...
Native Americans have lived in Texas for thousands of years, but it did not become part of a country in the modern sense until Spanish explorers arrived in 1519. The Spanish then essentially ignored it until the 1680s, when the French established an outpost near Matagorda Bay. “That galvanized the Spaniards, [who said], ‘There might not be anything...
During its period as an independent country, Texas attempted to expand south and west into what was then Mexico. “There was a whole series of expeditions and counter-expeditions and skirmishes and battles,” said Bob Brinkman, coordinator of the historical markers program at the Texas Historical Commission, a state agency. Even after joining the Uni...
Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House in April 1865. Yet despite being fully aware of this, Northern and Southern forces squared off the following month in the Battle of Palmito Ranch. “It must have been just a giant mob fight,” McCaslin said in describing the battle, which took place on a coastal prairie east of B...
Galveston, Texas, an island city located about 50 miles southeast of Houston, was once the nation’s biggest cotton port, a playground for millionaires and a major gateway for arriving immigrants. But on September 8, 1900, a Category 4 hurricaneslammed the area with a 15-foot storm surge and winds up to 140 miles per hour. Relatively few residents e...
Born in Denison, Texas, in 1890, Dwight D. Eisenhower moved to Kansas as a toddler and did not return to the Lone Star State until he was stationed there as a second lieutenant in the Army. Lyndon B. Johnson, on the other hand, was a Texan through and through. He was born one town over from Johnson City, which his relatives had helped settle, grew ...
In the 1980s Texas spent about $20 million a year cleaning up trash along its highways. “It was not uncommon to see cowboys driving down the street tossing a beer can out the window,” said Mark S. Saka, a history professor at Sul Ross State University. As a result, the state Department of Transportation hired an advertising agency to help with its ...
Abraham Lincoln’s election in 1860 as the first Republican president prompted Texas to leave the Union. The anti-slavery, pro-Reconstruction Republicans remained anathema there for decades to come, losing every presidential election but one until 1952. “This was common throughout the South,” said Saka. Although Texans sometimes identify with the Am...
Contrary to popular belief, Texas has no more right to secede than any other state. But its 1845 annexation agreement does permit its division into as many as five states without federal approval. “The joke is that if there were five states, then who would get the Alamo?” Brinkman said. “Or would it be a pie ridge radiating out from that site?” No ...
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Early history. The ancestors of the West Texas Native Americans lived in camps perhaps as long as 37,000 years ago. Possessing only crude spears and flint-pointed darts, these hunters survived primarily on wild game.
Texas is the second-most populous state in the United States after California and the only other U.S. state to surpass a total estimated population of 30 million people as of July 2, 2022. In 2015, Texas had 4.7 million foreign-born residents, about 17% of the population and 21.6% of the state workforce.
17. Feb. 2019 · Stephen F. Austin siedelt 1823 mit 300 Familien und gründet die Stadt San Felipe de Austín. Es entstanden allerdings mehr und mehr Spannungen zwischen Mexikanern und US-amerikanischen Siedlern. Auch das Verbot der Sklaverei in Mexiko wirkte verschärfend. Die USA boten Mexiko an Texas zu kaufen.
