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Louisiana Purchase boundaries of 1803. First mapped by Spain in 1519, for over 300 years Texas was part of the vast Spanish Empire seized by the Spanish conquistadores from its indigenous people. [1]
Texas secession movements, also known as the Texas Independence movement or Texit, [1] [2] refers to both the secession of Texas during the American Civil War as well as activities of modern organizations supporting such efforts to secede from the United States and become an independent sovereign state.
The Neutral Ground. The Neutral Ground (also known as the Neutral Strip, the Neutral Territory, and the No Man's Land of Louisiana; sometimes anachronistically referred to as the Sabine Free State) was a disputed area between Spanish Texas and the United States' newly acquired Louisiana Purchase.
“If Texas were to become an independent nation, it would no longer be part of the U.S. Medicare system, as Medicare is a federal program operated by the U.S. government,” Tamplin said in a ...
Resaca de la Palma, Texas, May 1846. On February 28, 1845, the U.S. Congress narrowly passed a bill that authorized the United States to annex the Republic of Texas if it so voted. The legislation set the date for annexation for December 29 of the same year. On October 13 of the same year, a majority of voters in Texas approved a proposed ...
Although Louisiana imported most finished goods, some manufacturing did exist. A New Orleans factory switched from making clothing for plantations to making uniforms. Converted factories made weapons from scrap iron collected by citizens. Ranches in southwest Louisiana and Texas supplied the cattle for a slaughterhouse south of Alexandria.
Louisiana taxpayers will have to wait at least another year before lawmakers consider eliminating the state's $4.5 billion income tax again. Republican Columbia state Rep. Neil Riser's House Bill ...
Louisiana officials are blocked from enforcing the law under a temporary injunction that the state will now try to appeal. The law signed by Governor Jeff Landry earlier this year — the first of ...