Fifty states of USA
America is a very huge country. It consists of 50 states. Each state has its own government and lows. We can explore america state by state but it will take so many time and place that our mind will refuse to accept such a quantity of information. Let us better to explore just some states of USA so we can receive a general image of what is a state of America.
4. TEXAS
Novelist Edna Ferber labeled Texas as a giant, and she was right. The total wealth of its natural resources surpasses that of all the other states. As a separate country it would rank 11th in wealth among the nations. Texas leads the nation in total productivity, and its history retells one of the nation's most heroic events, the defense of the Alamo. Texans are friendly indeed, "Friendship" is their state motto.
Once the typical Texan was a frontier cowboy with a ten-gallon hat, but today the state's symbol might more appropriately be an oil field worker or a laboratory scientist. Texas is still a frontier state, but nowadays the frontier is the space program. Perhaps it is typical and appropriate that this giant state has constructed the largest of all the state capitols as a symbol of its strength.
The shipwrecked party of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca escaped from Indian captivity on an island off the Texas coast in 1535 and made an incredible journey across country back to Mexico.
The renowned expedition of Francisco Vasquez de Coronado crossed the Rio Grande in 1541.
The first permanent European settlement in what is now Texas was Ysleta, founded in 1682.
In the first half of the 1700s about a dozen missions became outposts of civilization in Tem.
The Sabine and Red rivers were established as northern and eastern boundaries in 1819.
Moses and Stephen Austin established an American foothold in Texas before Moses died in the 1820s, and the American presence grew in the early 1830s.
By 1835 the Americans in Texas realized that they must seek independence from Mexico, and they laid siege to San Antonio, which fell in December.Mexican leader Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna arrived in February 1836 to recapture San Antonio, finding the defenders at an old mission called the Alamo. After a long siege, his forces overwhelmed and slaughtered them on March 6. Only one of the defenders managed to escape. Santa Ana then captured and murdered 330 Texans at Goliad.
Texan dynamo Sam Houston led his forces eastward and lured Santa Anna into a difficult position. Santa Anna was defeated and captured at the decisive Battle of San Jacinto, on April 21, 1836.
Later that year, the people held an election and chose Sam Houston as the first president of the independent Republic of Texas.
After ten years of independence, on December 29, 1845, Texas became the 28th state.
As the divisions over slavery increased, Sam Houston became governor in 1859.
Dallas celebrated the Texas Centennial in 1936.
An explosion at a New London school in 1937 brought death to more than 300 pupils and teachers.
World War II called 750,000 Texans into the armed services, and 23,022 lost their lives.
A border dispute with Mexico was settled in 1963.
Texan Lyndon Baines Johnson succeeded to the presidency on the assassination of John F. Kennedy at Dallas on November 22, 1963.
Despite Houston's objection, the state voted to secede on January 28, 1861, and Houston resigned as governor.
During the Civil War, Texas furnished enormous quantities of essential materials and food.
Texas was readmitted to the Union on March 30, 1870, and a new constitution became law on February 15, 1876.