Texas History for Kids: Lone Star Lives and Legends, with 21 Activities
place at Gonzales 1836 Texas issues its declaration of independence Texas is defeated by Mexico at the Battle of the Alamo Texas under the leadership of Sam Houston defeats Mexico at the Battle of San Jacinto Cynthia Ann Parker is kidnapped by Comanches The Texas Republic is established Sam Houston is elected president 1839 The Lone Star Flag is adopted The Cherokee are forced out of Texas 1840 Austin becomes the state capital 1845 Texas is annexed by the United States becoming the 28th state 1846 The Mexican American War 48 1850 Texas boundaries are redrawn after the Com promise of 1850 1853 The Buffalo Bayou Brazos and Colorado Railway becomes the first railroad in Texas 1865 The Civil War ends the Emancipation Proclamation is read in Galveston 1888 The present capitol building is completed 1900 The Great Storm destroys Galveston 1901 Oil is discovered at Spindletop 1914 Houston Ship Channel opens
1924 Miriam Ma Ferguson is elected she is the first woman governor of Texas and second woman governor in the United States 1950 Herman Marion Sweatt is the first African American admitted to the University of Texas Law School 1960 Houston Oilers and Dallas Cowboys football teams are established 1961 The Manned Spacecraft Center opens just outside Houston Twelve years later it is renamed the Johnson Space Center 1963 President John F Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas Lyndon B Johnson of Texas is sworn in and then elected the next year 1965 The Astrodome opens in Houston as the world's first air conditioned stadium for baseball and football 1986 Texas experiences an oil depression 2001 Former Texas governor George W Bush is sworn in as president after US Supreme Court decision 2005 Hurricane Rita makes landfall and devastates Beaumont 2008 Hurricane Ike strikes Galveston
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Introduction ow do you explain Texas to someone who has never been there Do you talk about the Wild West qualities or the modern cities of steel and glass erupting from the plains Is Texas the mesas plateaus and desert valleys of West Texas The long line of beaches islands and marshes along the coast Or the gently rolling land of Hill Country or the Piney Woods of East Texas You can ask the same about the people cowboys oilmen strong women Latinos or technology geniuses Like many states the area today known as Texas has been ruled and influenced by many countries and cultures Spanish Mexican French Ger man Czech and more Each left its mark Texas is many things to many people Texas is a huge state 268 820 square miles and probably has the most recogniz
