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Land Grants
Mexico gave land to people in texas hoping that they will follow there laws even though they ended up rebelling. -
The old three hundred
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 -
Stephen Austin
Referred to as the Father of Texas.Recruited families to texas. He served as secretary of state of the republic. Austin urged Texans to join federalists in Mexico in revolt against the centralist dictatorship of Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna. -
The texas rebellion
the revolution began in the Mexican province of Texas rebelled against the increasingly centralist Mexican government. Taxes one its independence. -
Goliad
The Battle of Goliad was the second skirmish of the Texas Revolution. and was a masscacre -
The battle of the Alamo
The battle was a battle that the texians new that they where going to loke but did not give up. The Alamo lost but aided in the deafet of mexico. -
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. -
Houston becomes President
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. -
Taxes joins the Union
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.
