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Old three hundred
The name Old Three Hundred is used to refer to the settlers who received land grants in Stephen F. Austin's first colony. -
Land Grant
When the Mexicans gave some land to Texas hoping they would follow the laws but end up having a rebelling. -
Stephen F. Austin
Stephen Fuller Austin, born in Austinville, Va., November 3, 1793, died December 27, 1836. Under the terms of a special act in 1824 the colonizer was responsible for the settlement of more than 1,200 American families in Mexican Texas. -
mexico effort to seal borders and raise taxes on imports
The Decree of April 6, 1830 stopped immigration from U.S. to Mexico, placed a custom duty tax on goods coming from U.S. into Texas, did not allow new slaves to enter Texas. -
Texas revolution
The Texas revolution is when the colonist and repelled against the Mexican goverment. Lots of fighting was going on and eventually the colonsist gave up and fled. -
goliad
the oldest standing fort west of the Mississippi. Two Franciscan missions, one of them partially restored, introduced Catholicism and cattle ranching to the region. And the hero of Cinco de Mayo, a Mexican national holiday commemorating a victory over French invaders, was born here. -
Battle of the Alamo
William B. Travis, the commander of the Alamo sent forth couriers carrying pleas for help to communities in Texas. On the eighth day of the siege, a band of 32 volunteers from Gonzales arrived, bringing the number of defenders to nearly two hundred. Legend holds that with the possibility of additional help fading, Colonel Travis drew a line on the ground and asked any man willing to stay and fight to step over, all except one did. As the defenders saw it, the Alamo was the key to the defense o -
battle of san jacinto
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. -
houston becomes president
Though the rebellion suffered a crushing blow at the Alamo in early 1836, Houston was soon able to turn his army’s fortunes around. On April 21, he led some 800 Texans in a surprise defeat of 1,500 Mexican soldiers under General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna at the San Jacinto River. Santa Anna was captured and brought to Houston, where he was forced to sign an armistice that would grant Texas its freedom.
