Chapter 9 timline

By katierose95

  • Stephen Austin establishes a colony in Texas

    • He established a colony between the Brazos and Colorado rivers, where 
“no drunkard, no gambler, no profane swearer, and no idler” 
would be allowed.
    • Austin had issued 297 land grants to the group that later became known as Texas’s Old Three Hundred.

  • Stephen Austin meets with Mexican President Santa Anna

    -Stephen F. Austin journeys to Mexico City to petition for states' rights. - The Vice-president, Gomez Farias, refuses to meet with him because President Santa Anna is never available. After many bureaucratic delays, Austin gives up and leaves for Texas.

  • Mexico places restrictions on American immigration

    • Austin won a repeal of the prohibition on immigration. -More than 1,00 Anglos each month streamed into Texas, scrawling the initials “G. T. T.”

  • Battle of the Alamo

    -A mission and fort in San Antonio, Texas, where Mexican forces massacred rebellious Texans.

    -In response, Santa Anna swept northward and stormed and destroyed the small American garrison in the Alamo.

  • Battle of San Jacinto

    • Led by General Sam Houston, the Texian Army engaged and defeated General Antonio López de Santa Anna's Mexican forces in a fight that lasted just eighteen minutes.
    • About 630 of the Mexican soldiers were killed and 730 captured, while only nine Texans died.

  • Treaty of Velasco grants Texas Independence

    • Between Antonio López de Santa Anna of Mexico and the Republic of Texas, in the aftermath of the Battle of San Jacinto.
    • Provided a conclusion of hostilities between the two belligerents and offer the first steps toward the official recognition of the breakaway Republic's independence.

  • U.S. annexes Texas

    • Sam Houston invited the United States to incorporate the Texas republic into the United States.
    • U. S. opinion, however, divided along sectional lines. Southerners sought to extend slavery, already established in Texas.

  • Slidell's Rejection

    -“Polk the Purposeful” sent John Slidell to Mexico to purchase California and New Mexico and to gain approval of the Rio Grande as the Texas border.

    -Polk then issued orders for General Zachary Taylor to march to the Rio Grande and blockade the river. Mexicans viewed this action as a violation of their rights.

  • General Taylor marches troops across Rio Grande

    -Taylor positioned his troops at the Rio Grande, Mexico.
    -They responded by sending their forces to the Rio Grande to gain its territory back.

  • Gold discovered at Sutter's Mill, California

    -James Marshall discovered gold at Sutter’s Mill

    -Soon after the news reached San Francisco, residents traveled to the Sacramento Valley in droves to pan for gold.

  • U.S. declares war on Mexico

    • American forces invaded New Mexico, the California Republic, and parts of what is currently northern Mexico; meanwhile, the American Navy conducted a blockade, and took control of several garrisons on the Pacific coast of Alta California, but also further south in Baja California. -The US won the war and it resulted in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.

  • Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends war with Mexico

    -Mexico agreed to the Rio Grande border for Texas and ceded New Mexico and California to the US.

    -The US agreed to pay $15 million for the Mexican cession, which included present-day California, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, most of Arizona, and parts of Colorado and Wyoming.

  • Zachary Taylor elected president

    -It was between Zachary Taylor, Lewis Cass, and Martin Van Buren.
    -Taylor’s victory was soon overshadowed by a glittering discovery in one of America’s new territories.

  • California applies for statehood

    -This created a renewal of sectional tension because California's admission into the Union threatened to upset the balance of power in Congress.
    -California was admitted as a free state.

  • Gadsden Purchase

    -President Franklin Pierce would authorize his emissary James Gadsden to pay Mexico an additional $10 million for another piece of territory south of the Gila River.

    -Established the current borders of the lower 48 states.