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. ! . This section does not cite any sources Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed (June 2010) (Learn how and when to remove this template message), In 1821 the Mexican War for Independence severed the control that Spain had exercised on its North American territories and the new country of Mexico was formed from much of the lands that had comprised New Spain including Spanish Texas the 1824 Constitution of Mexico joined Texas with Coahuila to form the state of Coahuila y Tejas the Congress did allow Texas the option of forming its own state "as soon as it feels capable of doing so.", The Harris County Courthouse in Houston in 1913. Map of Houston 1913 The bicameral Texas Legislature consists of the House of Representatives with 150 members and a Senate with 31 members the Speaker of the House leads the House and the lieutenant governor the Senate the Legislature meets in regular session biennially for just over 100 days but the governor can call for special sessions as often as desired (notably the Legislature cannot call itself into session) the state's fiscal year spans from the previous calendar year's September 1 to the current year's August 31 Thus the FY 2015 dates from September 1 2014 through August 31 2015. . Culture of the United States of America Main article: Mediterranean and Middle East theatre of World War II, Asian: 3.8 percent (1.0 percent Indian 0.8 percent Vietnamese 0.6 percent Chinese 0.4 percent Filipino 0.3 percent Korean 0.1 percent Japanese 0.6 percent other Asian). An additional obvious legacy is that of Roman Catholicism At the end of Spain's reign over Texas virtually all inhabitants practiced the Catholic religion and it is still practiced in Texas by a large number of people the Spanish missions built in San Antonio to convert Indians to Catholicism have been restored and are a National Historic Landmark, Kleinbrook 10 External links diesel particulate matter (DPM) - cancer.

Francisco de Villagra The current Houston Chronicle headquarters formerly the Houston Post headquarters 16 External links Harris County ESD #12 Fire Cloverleaf Fire Department .5% .03; 12.2 JFK assassination A large stone complex several stories high Two crosses top the structures in the foreground Harris County Criminal Courts Building. Main article: Cuisine of Houston Due to its size and geologic features such as the Balcones Fault Texas contains diverse landscapes common to both the U.S Southern and Southwestern regions. Although Texas is popularly associated with the U.S southwestern deserts less than 10% of Texas's land area is desert. Most of the population centers are in areas of former prairies grasslands forests and the coastline Traveling from east to west one can observe terrain that ranges from coastal swamps and piney woods to rolling plains and rugged hills and finally the desert and mountains of the Big Bend. .