Navarro is the sole Hispanic delegate to the Convention of 1845, where Texas accepts U.S. president James K. Polk'sproposal for annexation. Navarro helps to write the first state constitution ...

A: At about 268,596 square miles, Texas has reigned as America’s largest state from the time it was admitted, as the twenty-eighth state, on December 29, 1845, to the time Alaska was admitted ...

Tourist Site After the United States annexed Texas in 1845, the U.S. military occupied the Alamo, and during a brief period during the Civil War, it was held by the Confederacy. The late ...

Concern over illegal immigration over the border makes 44 percent of Texans more likely to back state independence.