1. Texas State Project By:Cheyenne Glennon

2. LOCATION!! 30N,100W South of Oklahoma North of Mexico
East of New Mexico
West of Louisiana

3. Cities!! Austin is the Capital.
Houston, San Antonio, El Paso, Fort Worth, Dallas, Corpus Christi are major Cities.
There are 254 Counties.

4. State Plants!! The State Flower is the Bluebonnet.
The State Tree is the Pecan Tree.
The State Fruit is the Red Grapefruit.
The State Vegetable is the Sweet Onion

5. Resources! ! Texas is the top state in producing oil.
Texas is also #1 in rising beef cattle & growing cotton.

6. The State Large Mammal is the Longhorn
State Animals
The State Bird is the Mockingbird
The State Large Mammal is the Longhorn
The State small Mammal is the Armadillo

7. About Texas! !
The Statehood is that Texas is became our 28th State on Dec. 29th 1845.
The Lone Star State is the nickname of Texas.
Texas had 6 flags flow over it.

8. Famous Texans Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson & Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Rogers Hornsby & Ernie Banks were famous baseball players born in Texas.

9. How many People are There?!!?
There were about 20,946,503 in 2000.
There were about 21,325,018 in 2001

10. Regions of Texas!! Texas has about EVERY kind of scenery.
A few kinds of scenery are the flat valleys,the beaches,the stony deserts,and the towering mountains

11. Texas Six Flags
The reason there are 6 flags is because Spain ruled Texas, then French colonist settled in the gulf region. When they left Spain ruled again. Then Mexico broke free from Spain and claimed Texas. The Texans didn’t like Mexico's rules. They fought a war and won their independence. Texas was it’s own Country. They did not have enough money and were scared of being attacked again, so on Dec. 29th 1845 Texas joined the United States as the 28th state.

12. Famous Places to Visit Six Flags over Texas Park
Fiesta Texas (amusement park)
Sea World
The Alamo
Beaches
Deserts
Mountains

13. Other Facts
Houston is home to the Kennedy Space Center. The Kennedy Center is in charge of the Space Shuttle while in space.
The last battle of the war against the Mexicans was fought at the Alamo in San Antonio

14. Current Event
The U.S made an agreement this month with Mexico. Mexico will release about 129,551 acre-feet of water into the Rio Grande from their reservoirs to aid the south Texas farmers with irrigation. The U.S will give about 1.5 million acre-feet from Colorado River to Mexico as payment. Mexico has failed to give 1.5 million acre-feet in the last decade. The U.S has scheduled a talk with the government of Mexico to see what the problem is with the water.
(1 acre foot = 325,851 gallons)

15. Another Event
The Columbia Space Shuttle broke apart over Texas Sat.morning 2\2\03 . There is debris is mostly in eastern Texas counties. There were 7 astronauts [5 men 2 women] they were all killed . A little bit of debris fell in Louisiana.

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