A decade after gaining its independence from Mexico, Texas accepted annexation into the United States on Dec. 29, 1845.
The Okefenokee swamp extends from Waycross, GA to the Florida-Georgia state Line boundary. It was the last piece of “untamed” Georgia area after the Civil War as the area was thought to be uninhabitable by humans.
The swamp served as a boundary between three Georgia Native American nations, a settlement for Spanish missions, a canal site, safe have for slaves and whites, a battleground between the Seminoles and the US Army, and a railroad/logging site (which destroyed a significant amount of the habitat).
To this day it is a federally-protected, indigenous wildlife sanctuary for many threatened and endangered species.
In the Declaration of Independence the argument for freedom from British rule is based primarily on the social contract theory of the government that was developed by John Locke. According to this theory, the people had the right to select a new government because the existing government was not serving the people.
