The reason I chose to do Bedford‚ Texas as my home town history project is because I have always known what town I was born in‚ but never really knew anything about it. A short history of Bedford‚ Texas The Old Bedford School is significant as one of the last surviving traces of the early Bedford community and a tangible link to an era from which few historic (pre-World War II) buildings survive. The building is one of the last remaining buildings of the rural‚ unincorporated community of Bedford
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Texas was the seventh state to seceded from the Union on February 1st‚ 1861. The vote was 166 to 7 and was passed on February 2nd‚ 1861. It allowed the State of Texas to join the confederate states in the south of the nation‚ on March 2nd. The signees were very carefully chosen and a lot of unique faces in it. Oran Milo Roberts was a very important signee and had a huge impact on Texas by being president of the secession convention‚ the Chief Justice of the state Supreme Court‚ and Governor of Texas
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Star College Texas Legislature The Legislature in the Texas government is responsible for the bills‚ resolutions‚ and policies of the state. The members of the Senate and House of Representatives must represent their constituencies and their interests when working on legislation‚ while also considering partisan goals and ideas. The Texas Legislature is a complex and important part of the government that includes policy making and committees to create laws for the state. The Texas Legislature is
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Texas‚ Home of The King Cowboy Pecos Bill‚ according to Peter Poulakis‚ was the patron saint of all things cowboy. As a baby‚ Bill was weaned on moonshine‚ and teethed on a bowie knife. His legend began when he was about year old‚ when Bill’s father decided to move the family out west. Bill’s father felt that his farmland had become too crowed for comfort when a family moved within fifty miles of his farm. During the move Bill’s family crossed the Pecos River in their wagon. While crossing the river
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The Texas Revolution can be considered a land grab by The United States. Texas was first under the control of Mexican government. Steven F. Austin then goes and asks for approval to set a small colony in Texas. Texas had agreed to four main stipulations: must have moral and hardworking settlers‚ keep Spanish as primary language‚ primary religion is Catholicism‚ and no slavery. All is fine until more and more settlers come to Texas. The United States essentially wants Texas for slavery rights‚ sees
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independence that results from the election of judges versus the appointment of judges.” While researching Texas appointed judges‚ I discovered that since 1845 when Texas become a state‚ judges were appointed until 1876 when judges were elected “by the people in the partisan elections” according to the website http://www.judicialselection.us/judicial_selection/index.cfm?state=tx. In addition‚ Texas has been electing their judges and in 1980 it became the first state that exceeded one million dollars
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anointed with the position to rule over the new government of Texas‚ I have developed three key issues that are in desperate need of reformation to better the standard of living and educate our civilians. Although Texas was a very self-sustaining with massive economy just in its self‚ we also received many funding grants to help cushion our day to day lives. Through my new ambitions to improve our states policies within our Education programs‚ Property Taxes‚ and the reform of legal and illegal drug
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Living in Texas vs. Louisiana Cheri Lane Globe University Living in Texas vs. Louisiana Texas is the second most populous and the second-largest of the 50 states in the United States of America‚ and the largest state in the 48 contiguous United States (Wikipedia‚ Texas‚ 2013). Louisiana is a state located in the southern region of the United States of America and is the 31st most extensive and the 25th most populous of the 50 United States ((Wikipedia‚ Louisiana‚ 2013). Texas and Louisiana
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Bilingual education and economic inequality are just two of the many issues Texans deal with in today’s society. In “What is Bilingual Education‚” Stephen Krashen defines bilingual education as “any use of two languages in school – by teachers or students or both – for a variety of social and pedagogical (educational) purposes” (1). Bilingual education confrontations in Texas are due to the overwhelming amount and diversity of immigrants in the past fifteen years. While good for population growth
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“The Texas Myth” in history has been created by many Anglo historians in hopes of creating and perpetuating a history that supports the Anglo cause of expansion during early Texas history. Many of the early Texas historians such as Webb‚ Dobie‚ Haley‚ and Webber have provided many historical accounts as told from the Anglo perspective. However‚ new historians such as Volanto‚ Goldman and Ginn have provided new perspectives that have begun to challenge the traditionalist views of history. With
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