On this day in history, Dec. 29, 1845, Texas joins Union as 28th state after winning independence from Mexico

Texas joined the Union as the 28th state, after its war of independence against Mexico and 10 years as a Lone Star Republic, on this day in history, December 29, 1845.

The great state, larger in area than the nation of France, joined the union but never lost its sense of independence.

“For all its great range of space, climate, and physical appearance, and for all its internal strife, strife, and strife, Texas has a close cohesiveness perhaps stronger than any other part of America,” wrote the author. famous John Steinbeck in 1962. Journey, “Travels with Charley: In Search of America.”

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“Rich, poor, the Panhandle, the Bay, the city, the country, Texas is the obsession, due study, and passionate possession of all Texans.”

Everything is bigger in Texas — including the drama surrounding its path to statehood.

Engraving of the siege of the Alamo, the first thirteen days of the Battle of the Alamo, from ‘A Short History of Texas from the Earliest Settlement to Which the State Constitution Was Attached’ by De Witt Clinton Baker, 1873. Courtesy Internet Archive .
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James Bowie, Davy Crockett and some 200 other heroes were killed at the siege of the Alamo during the Texas Revolution (1935-36), a massacre that became a resolute rallying cry – “Remember the Alamo!” – of Texas persistence.

The Lone Star State gained its independence from Mexico during the war.

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Revolutionary leaders, mostly colonists from the US, including Texas President Sam Houston, immediately made proposals of citizenship to the American leadership in Washington DC

“Texas sought annexation by the United States, but both Mexico and anti-slavery forces in the United States opposed its admission to the Union,” writes History.com.

Texas has a close cohesiveness perhaps stronger than any other part of America. – John Steinbeck

The decade-long debate in Washington and among the American people over statehood for Texas, which allowed slavery, was a prelude to the Civil War 25 years later.

“The United States granted diplomatic recognition to Texas, [but] took no further action on annexation until 1844, when President John Tyler resumed negotiations with the Republic of Texas,” writes the Office of the Historian of the U.S. Department of State.

James K. Polk (1813-1894), 11th President of the United States 1845-49, half-length portrait, oil on canvas, George Peter Alexander Healy, 1846. Polk oversaw a major territorial expansion of the nation toward west, including admitting Texas as a state in 1845.
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“His efforts culminated on April 12 in a Treaty of Annexation, an event that caused Mexico to sever diplomatic relations with the United States. However, Tyler lacked the votes in the Senate to ratify the treaty … With the support of President-elect [James K.] Polk, Tyler succeeded in passing the joint resolution on March 1, 1845, and Texas was admitted to the United States on December 29.”

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Texas would soon have to fight for its independence again in the Mexican-American War (1846-48), which arose out of the disputed boundary of the Nueces Strip—the stretch of land between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande further south .

The admission of Texas to the United States antagonized Mexican officials and citizens.

“Mexico did not recognize Texas as a legitimate American territory, and the admission of Texas to the United States antagonized Mexican officials and citizens,” the National Park Service wrote.

“Instead of ameliorating this problem, President Polk deliberately worked to aggravate Mexico and provoke a war.”

The great leaps for mankind, including the first manned moon landing on July 20, 1969, were managed by NASA’s Mission Control Center in Houston, Texas. Astronaut Edwin E. “Buzz” Aldrin Jr. is shown posing for a photograph next to the flag placed on the moon during the Apollo 11 mission.
(AP Photo/NASA/Neil A. Armstrong, File)

The United States easily defeated Mexico and, with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, gained large swathes of what is now the American West, up to and including California.

Citizenship did not last long.

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Texas seceded from the Union on March 23, 1861 and joined the Confederacy at the start of the Civil War. It was readmitted in 1870, following the Union victory and the surrender of Confederate General Robert E. Lee in 1865.

The people of Texas today rock both the Stars and Stripes and the Lone Star with equal pride and jest.

The people of Texas today rock both the Stars and Stripes and the Lone Star with equal pride and jest.

Texas has grown into a political and industrial powerhouse and boasts one of the most powerful and fastest growing economies in the world.

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Presidents Dwight Eisenhower and Lyndon B. Johnson were born in Texas; while Presidents George HW and George W. Bush called Texas home.

So the nation has been led by a Texan by birth or Texan by choice for 25 of the last 70 years.

With 38 congressional districts, Texas has as much power in Washington, DC, as the 18 smallest states combined.

Godfather of Soul James Brown’s Texas license plate on his tour bus reads “B Proud” at the Newport Jazz Festival on July 6, 1969, in Newport, Rhode Island.
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Texas is physically the largest of the contiguous 48 states, with an area of ​​269,000 square miles. France, by comparison, the largest nation in Western Europe, is only 213,000 square miles.

The Lone Star State welcomed more people than any other state between the 2010 and 2020 Censuses — growing from 25 million to 29 million.

It is also perhaps the most culturally diverse state in the Union, with a majority of the population, 40 percent, of Hispanic or Latino origin.

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Texas’ annual gross domestic product of $2.1 trillion is about the same as that of Italy, the world’s eighth-largest economy, according to World Bank data.

“Texas is a state mind. Texas is an obsession,” Steinbeck wrote. “After all, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word.”