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Stpehen F. Austin
Stephen Fuller Austin (November 3, 1793 – December 27, 1836) was an American empresario born in Virginia and raised in southeastern Missouri. He is the father of Texas -
Texas Old Three Hundred
The Old Three Hundred were the 297 grantees, made up of families and some partnerships of unmarried men, who purchased 307 parcels of land from Stephen Fuller Austin and established a colony that encompassed an area that ran from the Gulf of Mexico on the south. -
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 garrisoned at Presidio La Bahía, a fort near the Mexican Texas settlement of Goliad. -
Battle of the Alamo
The Battle of the Alamo was a pivotal event in the Texas Revolution. Following a 13-day siege, Mexican troops under President General Antonio López de Santa Anna launched an assault on the Alamo Mission -
Houston becomes President
On this day in 1836, Sam Houston is elected as president of the Republic of Texas, which earned its independence from Mexico in a successful military rebellion. Houston moved with his family to rural Tennessee after his father’s death -
Taxes Revolution
The Texas Revolution began when colonists in the Mexican province of Texas rebelled against the increasingly centralist Mexican government. -
Battle of the San Jacinto
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
The bill was signed by United States President Polk on December 29, 1845, accepting Texas as the 28th state of the Union. -
Land Grant
Made by a government or other authority as a reward for services to an individual, especially in return for military service. Grants of land are also awarded to individuals and companies as incentives to develop unused land in relatively unpopulated countries; the process of awarding land grants are not limited to the countries named below. -
Mexico's effort to seal borders and raise taxes on import
The U.S. is Mexico's main trading partner, absorbing 60 percent of all Mexican exports while pr oviding 65 percent of all Mexican imports. The U.S.-Mexican economic relationship, however, is not symmetrical. Mexico, though the U.S.3 third largest export market, receives only 6 percent of all U.S.
