Facts About Texas for Kids | Geography Educational Video

Hi everyone, Hi Quinn, guess what cadence, you know, we're always talking about going places. Yes, let's go to Texas. Texas. Yes. Let's learn about Texas. Good idea. Texas is the second largest state in the US and is also the largest state in the South. Its landscape. includes deserts cave systems melons canyons forests and the Rio Grande The Rio Grande is a river that forms the border between Texas and Mexico Texas was first explored in 1528 by Spanish explorers by accident when their ship sank off the coast Texas no became a colony until 1685 France claimed to know that Spain then established a rival colony in 1691 established a religious outpost in eastern Texas Spain did not return to Texas until 1716 returned to protect their colonies in the west of French forces founded San Antonio two years later, disagreement between the Spanish and the Native Americans in East Texas prevented many settlers from coming to Texas to make it their new home, as well as the number of Native American raids.

Spain called a truce between many tribes in 1745 and 1789, but tension worsened in Texas once the United States purchased a large piece of land from France in 1803. This land was called the Louisiana Purchase. People began to wonder if Spain or the United States would really claim Texas and when Mexico would gain its independence from Spain in 1821 Texas actually became part of Mexico, they began calling the area quia Tejas. Americans in settlers moved to Texas when Mexico allowed non-Spanish settlers to settle here after many settlers moved to Texas. Mexico began taxing non-citizens, which outraged many. Southern settlers were even angrier because Mexico banned all slavery in 1829, but at this time in American history many Southerners thought of owning a slave as a way of life, so in 1835 the settlers living there they rebelled.

This was the beginning of the Texas Revolution. The colonists suffered a terrible defeat by the Mexican army in the 1836 battle at the Alamo, a mission in San Antonio, but the loss only inspired the colonists to continue fighting with a cry of remember the Alamo, many joining the army rebel and soon Mexico surrendered. On March 2, 1836 Texas declared its independence from Mexico and they were soon at war Texas one but Mexico refused to recognize Texas as an independent colony Texas then acts to become a state of the United States years later in 1845, The US added Texas as a state and Mexico broke off diplomatic relations Mexico would not accept any offer from the United States to purchase land stretching from Texas to the Pacific Ocean in 1846 a border fight between Texas and Mexico resulted in a armed conflict and the war between Mexico and the United States began the war of unity of the United States and by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, lands that later formed the states of California Arizona Nevada Utah New Mexico, as well as parts of southwestern Colorado and the southwest Wyoming, Mexico received 15 million dollars to increase their claims on Texas by 15 million dollars, that's a lot of money.

Gaining Texas independence was a long process that began in 1824 and ended with 18 leaders such as Sam Houston and Stephen Faustin gaining the support of other Texans who shared the same beliefs in which they had settled. Texas to establish new lives from the persecution of Englund banded together because they would not tolerate Santa Ana taking away their new freedoms. The Mexican president of Texas. Santa Ana was trying to gain more powers over the people of Texas. This was exactly what they had already been trying to escape from England after many battles at places like the Alamo, the Texans were able to gain their independence from Mexico and after Abraham Lincoln was elected president of the United States, Texas joined the newly formed Confederate States of America in 1861 and fought in the American Civil War trying to gain independence from the United States, the Confederates lost to the Union for the United States in 1865 and Texas regained its full representation in Congress on March 30, 1870 On January 10, 1901, the entire structure in Texas led to the founding of a richer economy during the time when the economy was bad many people left Texas left Texas for many years Texas lost much of its population until . the 1950s and 1960s people began to repopulate Texas and return recently Texas has been exploiting technology and computers the land that is now Texas has been inhabited for many years, people first arrived in what is now Texas about At least sixteen thousand seven hundred years, thousands of years later, Native American tribes, including the Koch ISA Caren Cowan Well Gaalan and Comanches lived there.

Spanish settlers who promoted Christianity, called missionaries, were some of the first Europeans to live in what is now Texas. So how did Texas get its name around 1540 in the area that is now East Texas? The Spanish explorers met the Caddo Indians from Caddos called Spanish tatius which means friends or allies in Spanish, this was actually translated to Tejas and the United States eventually converted this name to Texas Tejas as José Tejas. Many believe that the Caddo tribe greeted the Spanish settlers by saying Tejas, which means friends and sounds like Texas. Texas is called the Lone Star State because in 1836, when the Republic of Texas declared itself an independent nation, it flew a flag with a single star.

The lone star can be found on the Texas state flag and the Texas state seal. New Mexico borders Texas in northwestern Oklahoma. in northern and northeastern Arkansas, Louisiana and the Gulf of Mexico in the east and Mexico in the southwest, the mountainous southern and eastern part of the state is called the Gulf Coastal Plains, this includes the pine belt, where the most commercial lumber in Texas. The interior lowlands. They cover the northeast and have some of the largest ranches in the state. The Great Plains extend across the north and west of the state, but extend into Canada.

The far west is the Basin and Range province. This is the only mountainous region in Texas that it borders. south by the Rio Grande the river that marks the boundary between the United States and Mexico Texas is the only state that has the flags of six different nations to fight for Spain France Mexico the Republic of Texas the confederate states and the United States when Texas joined the Union and maintained the right to fly its state flag at the same height as the national flag. Did you know that Texas has to do it on June 5 before the counties?

This is more counties than any other. Shandi us Texas leads the nation in livestock production. Due to its long history as a center of the cattle industry, many people associate Texas with the image of cowboys and around 27 million people live in Texas. It is larger than France. In 1845 it became the 28th state of the United States. The largest cities in Texas are Houston Dallas Fort Worth San Antonio El Paso and Austin Austin is the capital city of Texas, there are many famous attractions in Texas. Fort Worth is known for its stockyards and Amarillo is known for the livestock business and stockyards in Dallas.

Industrial technology companies such as Texas Instruments. and EDS have their offices. Guess what Texas is bigger than any of its countries in Europe? King Ranch in Texas is larger than the entire state of Rhode Island. Texas also has the second largest population in the US. California has the most sodas. Pepper was invented in Waco Texas in 1885 by a pharmacist named Charles Alderton. A highly publicized skill in Texas is the peanut inside Dr. Pepper, did you know that Texas has over 70,000 miles of highways and each year the state uses 1.6 million gallons of white and yellow paint to coat its roads?

Texas also has the highest speed limit in the country, 85 miles per hour, this Texas claims to be the birthplace of the hamburger I love hamburgers Texas is also known for Tex-Mex food, a combination of Texan and Mexican cuisine including nachos, fajitas, burritos, hard tacos and more. In Texas you can find animals like black bears, armadillos, coyotes, mountain lions, endangered cats called jaggers. wounds tiger salamanders and leopard frogs Texas has more bird species than any other state, including screech owls and hummingbirds, the armadillo is the official state mammal, more bat species live in Texas than anywhere else in the United States , the state of Texas adopted its flag to represent the values ​​of the state, blue represents loyalty, white means purity and red is bravery, the colors were chosen to be the same as those of the flag of the United States, but Only one star was selected to represent Texas, the lone star symbolizes the state being unified for one divine state and country, okay, did you like this

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