Texas

Texas!

Texas, the second-largest state in USA with 24, 32 million people scattered on 696,200 km2. The capital city is Austin but not the greatest; witch is Houston with a total area on 1558km2 and 2 million people. Houston has been one of USA’s fastest growing cities. It is specially workplaces in the oil industry that has brought attention to the city. Houston is USA’s oil capital state. The city has also the Norwegian oil capital state Stavanger as on of its friendships city. It lives about 5000 Norwegian in Houston. Other big and important cities are San Antonio, El Paso, Dallas and Forth Worth.

Texas has many different landscapes. On a journey from east to west you will see big needle forests and oak forests, big surfaces and prairie and the real desert around Big Bend.

You have maybe heard of the expression “everything is bigger in Texas”, witch refer to the enormous quantity that the state has. Texas is bigger than England, Germany, Ireland, Netherland and Belgian together. Texas has for a long time been the center for USA’s tame cattle industry. It as when time has passed developed to be the cowboy expression many has of the state. The second known expression “six flags over Texas” comes from all the flags Texas has used true time. The first country that claimed the sovereignty over Texas was Spain. In 1836 liberated Texas themselves, and become an independent nation. The republic Texas staid in 9 years, before it was annexed in Americas United states and became USA’s 28.state in December 1845. History In the beginning of 1900 there were found oil in Texas, witch made that the state got a gigantesque economic upturn. Since then Texas has been one of USA’s richest states and has the second largest economic in the country.

In the 1870s and 1880s the Indian tribes were driven out of the country with force and the building of the railway made way for the new-builders. The cattle-herd advanced and created the myth of Texas as the real “wild west” state. Today it is three federal approved Indian tribes with belonging to Texas:, Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas and Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo of Texas. In 1543 Luis de Moscoso discovered oil in existing Texas. When the first Spanish discoverers arrived, the area was just sparsely populated of several Indian tribes. In 1720 to 1722 it was occupied by Markis de Aguavo because that Spain feared that France would claim the territory.

The earlier president John F. Kennedy was shot and killed in Dallas November 22 in 1963. George W. Bush, who also was an earlier president in USA, was governor in Texas in the years 1994-2000.

Language Most of the East-Texas, Sentral-Texas and North-Texas are populated by white Protestants; witch mainly comes from the Great Britain. Numbers from the year 2000 showed that 68, 76 % of the population had English as their mother language, and for example 27, 00 % had Spanish as their mother language. In 2004 there were over 3, 5 millions citizens in Texas who was born abroad.

Education Texas has higher average characters than other states in subject like math, but lower in reading understanding. Texas Education Agency (TEA) manages all public school system in the state. Texas has over a thousand school districts – all of them, with exception of Stafford Municipal School District, is independent of county council and run on abeam of several different city- and county borders. It is 181 colleges, universities and a dozen of other school institutional in Texas. Texas is the state with the least of restrictions about home schools. There is no regulation of hours or days the student must have, or witch activities there must be. USA is the country with most home school educated, over a million people, and Texas is the state with most of them.

America loves celebrations and Texas is no exception. Second day in October they celebrate Columbus Day. They hail the day when Columbus discovered America in 1496. They also celebrates thanksgiving the fourth Thursday in November. This started when America got help from Indians in 1600. Every year America use this day to thank people who are helping them. In America they give each other Christmas presents December. 25. This day is called Christmas day. Third Monday in January, they celebrate Martin Luther King’s day. It’s his fight against racism they show they’re respect for. In February the Americans celebrate President’s Day. This is the day when all the previous presidents are remembered. Just like Norway they celebrate New Year’s Day January. 1. it’s also a tradition that they play football matches all over America. One of the places is cotton Bowl in Texas.

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