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Houston Becomes President
Sam(uel) Houston, governor of two states, president of the Republic of Texas, U.S. senator, and military hero, was one of the most colorful figures of 19th-century America. Born near Lexington, Va., on Mar. 2, 1793, he was reared in Tennessee by his widowed mother. -
Texas Old Three Hundred
Austin Moses Austins son had found willing colonists and by the end of the summer of 1824 most of the colonist were in Texas. Moses Austin had recieved a permit from the spanish to settle 300 famililies in Texas. -
Land Grants
U.S citizen from Arkansas,Moses Austin, Has aquired land in Texas in 1820. In 1823, Mexico comfirmed this land grant and allowed Austin so n Stephan F.Austin to sell his plots to land setllers as long as they were of good character. Also mecian taxes 1820 -
Mexican Efforts to Sea Borders and Raise Taxes on Imports
The Law of April 6, 1830 was issued because of the General Mier y Terán Report. The Law of April 6, 1830 angered many Mexicans, Tejanos, and Anglos alike in Texas. This decree placed a severe halt on American immigration to Mexico. The Texans wanted the 1824 General Colonization Law (Constitution of 1824) to be restored. -
Goliad
The Battle of Goliad was the second skirmish of the Texas Revolution. In the early-morning hours of October 9, 1835, rebellious Texas settlers attacked the Mexican Army soldiers -
Battle of the Alamo
On February 23, 1836, the arrival of General Antonio López de Santa Anna's army outside San Antonio nearly caught them by surprise. Undaunted, the Texians and Tejanos prepared to defend the Alamo together. The defenders held out for 13 days against Santa Anna's army. -
Stephan Austin
Even before these events, Texan leaders had met and declared Texas independent. They chose Sam Houston as their president, and Houston traveled East to gather recruits. In April 1836, Houston surprised Santa Anna's troops on a prairie near the San Jacinto River. Shouting "remember the Alamo," Houston's 800 men broke through the Mexican lines and killed nearly two-thirds of Santa Anna's men in fifteen minutes, taking Santa Anna himself as a prisone -
Texas Revolution
:The Texas Revolution began with theBattle of Gonzales in October 1835 and ended with the Battle of San Jacinto on April 21, 1836; but there were earlier clashes between official forces and groups of colonists, so that it is impossible to set dogmatic limits in speaking of military episodes alone, to say nothing of the development of social and political differences that -
Battle of San Jacinto
The Battle of San Jacinto, fought on April 21, 1836, in present-day Harris County, Texas, was the decisive battle of the Texas Revolution. Led by General Sam Houston, the Texian Army engaged and defeated General Antonio López de Santa Anna's Mexican army in a fight that lasted just 18 minutes. -
Texas Joins the Union
When Polk entered the White House the next day, he proceeded to encourage Texas to accept the Tyler offer. The Lone Star Republic ratified the treaty with popular approval from Texans. The bill was signed by United States President Polk on December 29, 1845, accepting Texas as the 28th state of the Union.
