Texas

Is Texas A Healthy State?

While the state’s ranking in 2019—34th—is an improvement from its 2018 ranking of 37th, we still have a ways to go, specifically in terms of the high percentage of uninsured people (Texas is ranked last), low rate of mental health providers (ranked 49th), and high prevalence of diabetes (ranked 40th). Which U.S. state is the …

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Why Did Many Immigrants Move To Texas During Reconstruction?

During the reconstruction era, many immigrants settled in Texas because the state still had public lands available. Under Congressional Reconstruction, one requirement for southern states to rejoin the Union was to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Why did immigrants want to move to Texas? Immigrants, mostly from the United States, immigrated to Texas …

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Who Lived In Texas First?

The recorded history of Texas begins with the arrival of the first Spanish conquistadors in the region of North America now known as Texas in 1519, who found the region occupied by numerous Native American tribes. Who were the first people living in Texas? In the late 1600s as Spanish explorers set their sites on …

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