Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Constitution of the State of Texas is the document that establishes the structure and function of the government of the U.S. state of Texas and enumerates the basic rights of the citizens of Texas. The current document was adopted on February 15, 1876, and is the seventh constitution in Texas history (including the Mexican constitution).
The citizens of Texas approved an annexation ordinance and a new constitution on October 13. [citation needed] On December 29, 1845, the United States admitted the State of Texas to the Union (Joint Resolution for the admission of the state of Texas into the Union, Joint Resolution 1, enacted December 29, 1845, 9 Stat. 108).
On July 23, 1836, interim President David G. Burnet, pursuant to the Constitution of the Republic of Texas, ordered that an election for Congress take place in Columbia on the first Monday in September 1836. As part of the same proclamation, Burnet mandated that the 1st Congress of the Republic of Texas convene on October 3, 1836, also at ...
Most of the newcomers continued to migrate from the states of the lower South; slavery was granted legal protection by the Texas constitution of 1845. The Texas population by 1860 was quite diverse, with large elements of European whites (from the American South), African Americans (mostly slaves brought from the east), Tejanos (Hispanics with ...
The first discusses how after the Texas Revolution and later the Texas annexation, the non-Hispanic whites took financial and political supremacy over Mexican-descended Texans. The second part shows the reorientation of the Texas economy towards settled agriculture, when previously ranching was the primary economic engine, and how this resulted ...
Several months later, Texas was granted increased representation in the Coahuila y Tejas legislature. Several American legal concepts, such as trial by jury, were introduced to Texas, and English was authorized as a second language. [38] Unimpressed with these compromises, some Texas residents continued to campaign for independent statehood.
Austin is the capital of Texas. The State Capitol resembles the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., but is faced in Texas pink granite and is topped by a statue of the "Goddess of Liberty" holding aloft a five-point Texas star. The capitol is also notable for purposely being built seven feet taller than the U.S. national capitol. [1]
An attempt to modify the Texas Constitution by voter referendum failed in May 1919, but in June 1919, the United States Congress passed the Nineteenth Amendment. Texas became the ninth state and the first Southern state to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment on June 28, 1919.