What was Texas called after gaining its independence and why was it called that?
score:1
The Republic of Texas would have been Texas more official name as indicated by its constitution in 1845 required by all states that wish to join the union.
We, the people of the republic of Texas, acknowledging with gratitude the grace and beneficence of God, in permitting us to make a choice of our form of government, do, in accordance with the provisions of the joint resolution for annexing Texas to the United States, approved March first, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five, ordain and establish this constitution.
Texas was informally known as the lone star republic as a nickname because of its similarities with the U.S goverment and the large number of U.S citizens that lived in Texas and wanted to be annexed by their home country. The Lone Star republic served as a patricotic call to the U.S to annex inhabitants who wanted the protection of the mighty U.S goverment from the Mexicans they had barely secured independence from. This idea is furthered by the fact that Texas changed its flag twice from its revolutionary Burnet Flag to a more U.S similar flag officially known as the Lone Star flag(found here). Finally the name Texas itself comes from the native American tribe Caddo which means friends or allies(explained here) which was adopted by the Spaniards upon first settling the area.
Upvote:2
Answer
It was called The Republic of Texas. The Wikipedia article on The Republic of Texas states:
The Republic of Texas (Spanish: RepΓΊblica de Tejas) was a sovereign state in North America that existed from March 2, 1836, to February 19, 1846. It was bordered by Mexico to the west and southwest, the Gulf of Mexico to the southeast, the two U.S. states of Louisiana and Arkansas to the east and northeast, and United States territories encompassing parts of the current U.S. states of Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, and New Mexico to the north and west. The citizens of the republic were known as Texians.
The Mexican province of Tejas (in English history books usually referred to as Mexican Texas) declared its independence from Mexico during the Texas Revolution in 1836. The Texas war of independence ended on April 21, 1836, but Mexico refused to recognize the independence of the Republic of Texas, and intermittent conflicts between the two states continued into the 1840s. The United States recognized the Republic of Texas in March 1837 but declined to annex the territory.
From the Wikipedia article on Texas regarding the etymology of Texas:
The name Texas, based on the Caddo word taysha (or tayshas) meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in East Texas.
It's form of government was a republic, hence the name Republic of Texas.
More post
- π Were some Yugoslav "nationalities" more pro-Axis/Allied than others during World War II
- π Why did people in some countries start to drive on the right?
- π Did ancient people understand divinity in the same way we do today?
- π Was reincarnation part of the early Christian church?
- π Why did the scutum fall out of use?
- π How well did Lenin and Hitler knew each other? Were they some sort of friends?
- π Fanons 'Concerning Violence' makes the point that Nazism was the culminating point of the project of European Colonialism, how true is that?
- π Is Thomas Wedgwood's picture actually the first photograph?
- π In WWI, How were the Germans able to maintain a submarine blockade of Britain?
- π In the "Christmas truce" of 1914 were there any football (soccer) matches between British and German troops?
- π Native peoples of North and South America impressions of Europeans
- π Did the "loss" of the American territories in the first third of the 19th century have any impact on Spanish intellectual discourse?
- π Was the secession of the Confederate states illegal?
- π Why did typesetting allegedly "make it difficult for illegal copiers"?
- π How does citizenship work during revolutions and similar upheavals?
- π Is the Afghan hat related to the Macedonian hat?
- π Did Martin Luther ever say "The prosperity of a country depends ... "?
- π Were the problems Fibonacci solved in his work "Flos" posed specifically for him?
- π When did the popular idea begin that the 21st century would commence on 1st January 2000?
- π When did we start expecting a store to have bags for our purchases?
- π What prevented empires with territory in North Africa from expanding south of the Sahara? And vice versa
- π Why does English use Roman months, but Germanic days of the week?
- π Why is national identity important?
- π How did the KPD relate to the German state during the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact?
- π Forms of address of Roman Magistrates under Constantinus
- π Before 1980, was there ever an attempt to evangelise for Orthodox Christianity?
- π Which US Presidents travelled around the world?
- π What was the device that general Birdwood was using in the "Gallipoli" TV series?
- π What were the reasons for the Federal Art Project?
- π Convict stowaways crossing the Pacific in 1796
Source: stackoverflow.com
Search Posts
Related post
- π What was Texas called after gaining its independence and why was it called that?
- π Why were the drawings of Colossus burnt after WW2 and why was its very existence "of course" kept secret?
- π Was the factional civil war that broke out in Angola after its independence in 1975 based on tribal rivalry?
- π What is the evidence to claim that political order in ancient Rome was sufficiently different under "kingdom", "republic" and "empire"?
- π What did Germany do after World War II to recover so successfully that it became more prosperous than its WW2 victors?
- π Is there any country(former colony) in the world that obtained independence and then again tried to join its colonist ruler?
- π Why did Japan not withdraw from China as its pacific front was crumbling and the threat of US invasion imminent?
- π Why was ancient Christianity more successful than the Roman pantheon and Judaism in gaining followers?
- π Considering what was known about Hitler in 1933, why would German bishops declare that Catholics could cooperate with the new State?
- π Why was the first production PzKpfw V (Panther) called the Ausf.D, and the second production version called the Ausf.A?
- π What was the ratio of French to English speakers in Upper Canada before and after the American Revolution?
- π What was the reason that Poland wanted a part of Germany north of Stettin/Szczecin and west of the Oder?
- π Why in the 70s and 80s was the United Kingdom called Great Britain in the international naming conventions?
- π What was the difference in taxation amounts before and after the American Revolution?
- π What were the alleged crimes that Conradin, King of Sicily and Jerusalem, was accused of?
- π Why was there calm in Indian-held Kashmir until 1989? What happened in 1989 that triggered the public unrest that still continues to this day?
- π What was Sir John Mandeville's source regarding Beersheba and its chronology?
- π To what extent is a coincidence that the Dec. of the Rights of Man and the Citizen and the USA Dec. of Independence were approved so close in time?
- π What was the first major technological advancement that occurred after the fall of the Roman Empire?
- π What was the extent of Japanese control after the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs and before surrender?
- π Where did the masquerade ball come from and what was its original concept?
- π When and where was the term "nigra" used and what was its relation to "nigger"?
- π What was the trend of forced labor in Germany and its conquered territories during WWII?
- π What was this weapon (or its mechanism), that Iraq was accused of having in the 1990's, called?
- π What was the first recorded reference to the fact that the sun rises and sets at different times across the Earth?
- π What was that book that listed all the rich/influential people and defined socioeconomic status for many Americans?
- π What was the main driver of conquest and wars in ancient times? Why were they so frequent?
- π There are two restaurants (one in Saigon, one in Hong Kong) called "ε ¨θ¨". Where does that name come from and what does it mean?
- π Why was the German Jewish population declining so much that some statisticians predicted its disappearance even before the 3rd Reich?
- π Did Adolf Hitler ever address the fact that his own appearance was almost an exact opposite of what he considered the ideal Aryan appearance?