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Although Not Recognized As Such By Mexico Texas Declared Itself An Independent Nation The Republic Of Texas Attracted By The Rich Lands For Cotton Plantations And Ranching Tens Of Thousands Of Immigrants Arrived From The U.S And From Germany As Well In 1845 Texas Joined The United States Becoming The 28th State When The United States Annexed It Only After The Conclusion Of The Mexican�American War With The Treaty Of Guadalupe Hidalgo In 1848 Did Mexico Recognize Texan Independence Texas Declared Its Secession From The United States In 1861 To Join The Confederate States Of America Only A Few Battles Of The American Civil War Were Fought In Texas; Most Texas Regiments Served In The East When The War Ended The Enslaved African Americans Were Freed Texas Was Subject To Reconstruction A Process That Left A Residue Of Bitterness Among Whites They Regained Political Dominance And Passed Laws In The Late 19th Century Creating Second-class Status For Blacks In A Jim Crow System Of Segregation And Disenfranchising Them In 1901 Through Passage Of A Poll Tax Blacks Were Excluded From The Formal Political System Until After Passage Of Federal Civil Rights Legislation In The Mid-1960s
. Two-thirds of all Texans live in a major metropolitan area such as Houston the Dallas-Fort Worth Metropolitan Area is the largest in Texas While Houston is the largest city in Texas and the fourth largest city in the United States the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area is larger than Houston.
11 Religion (4) 47 Weiser Air Park in unincorporated northern Harris County. Houston has been called the Lightning Capital of Texas as its density of lightning strikes is higher than it is in other parts of the state This area of unusually high lightning activity stretches from Houston eastward into Southwest Louisiana Much of this can be explained by the natural occurrence of thunderstorms in the region which form almost daily during the wet season However the unusual clustering of lightning around the developed areas of Houston the Golden Triangle and Lake Charles Louisiana have led many researchers to believe that some combination of urban heat islands and air pollution are responsible for increasing the number of lightning strikes beyond even the already-high natural levels, Matthias Ward settled in Clarksville Red River County and Jefferson Marion County The solution was to install a new type of artificial grass on the field ChemGrass which became known as AstroTurf Because the supply of AstroTurf was still low only a limited amount was available at the start of the 1966 season There was not enough for the entire outfield so the first phase covered only the traditional grass portion of the infield and foul territory at a cost of $2 per square foot it was installed in time to test out during exhibition games against the Dodgers in March the outfield remained painted dirt until after the All-Star Game the team was sent on an extended road trip before the break and on July 19 the installation of the outfield portion of AstroTurf was completed for a game with the Phillies thus covering the entire field with AstroTurf. Groundskeepers dressed as astronauts kept the turf clean with vacuum cleaners between innings the infield dirt remained in the traditional design with a large dirt arc similar to natural grass fields. ! Opening and reception Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill Black or African American: 11.8 percent. As early as October 27 Mexican president Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna had been preparing to quell the unrest in Texas in early 1836 Santa Anna personally led a 6,000-man force toward Texas His force was large but ill-trained. Santa Anna led the bulk of the troops to San Antonio de Bexar to besiege the Alamo Mission while General Jose de Urrea led the remaining troops up the coast of Texas. Urrea's forces soon defeated all the Texian resistance along the coast culminating in the Goliad Massacre where they executed 300 Texian prisoners of war. After a thirteen-day siege Santa Anna's forces overwhelmed the nearly 200 Texians defending the Alamo and killed the prisoners "Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad!" became a battle cry of the Texas Revolution.
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Caroline Tuck - State Farm Insurance Agent