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Stephen Austin
Stephen Austin led the first of many american settlers to the Brazas River. -
Land Grants
Mexico offered texas a land grant many times. They offered agents called empresarios. -
Texas Old Three Hundred
Austin offered 297 land grants. He offered expensive farmland or thousands of acres for stock grazing. -
Mexico's efforts to seal its borders
Mexico locked a good amount of officers to police it's borders . -
Texas Revolution
After Santa Anna revoked local powers in texas and other mexican states -
Battle of the Alamo
It was the fight for getting Texas from Mexico. Americans who occupied the Alamo was under seige from the Mexican force. -
Battle of San Jacinto
Sam Houston and the Texas army defeats Santa Anna's troops.This Win is the one they needed to get their independence -
Houston as President
Almost immediatly as Texas formed, Sam Houston became the first president of Texas. -
2nd Skirmish of the Texan Revolution.
Rebellious Texas settlers attacked the Mexican Army soldiers garrisoned at Presdio La Bahia. -
Texas Joins the Union
Texas becomes the 28th state of the United States
