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First 300 Settleers
Sugar Land's roots extend back to the first 300 settlers who came to Texas in the 1820's with Stephen F. Austin, the “Father of Texas.” The northern territory of Mexico, Austin negotiated a grant with the Mexican government to bring 300 colonists to settle a large area of land between the San Antonio and Brazos Rivers. -
Empresario
An empresario was a person who had been granted the right to settle on land in exchange for recruiting and taking responsibility for settling the eastern areas of Coahuila y Tejas in the early nineteenth century. Stephen F Austin was an empresario. -
Stephen F Austin
Went to jail trying to get rights fir Texas, he was thrown in jail by mexico -
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Texas Revolution
The Texas Revolution was a rebellion of colonists from the United States and Tejanos in putting up armed resistance to the centralist government of Mexico. On April 21, Texas and Mexico fought again at the Battle of San Jacinto. Texas was victorious this time, and won independence from Mexico, bringing the Texas Revolution to an end. -
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Goliad
The Battle of Goliad was the second skirmish of the Texas Revolution. In the early-morning hours of October 9, 1835, Texas settlers attacked the Mexican Army soldiers garrisoned at Presidio La Bahía, a fort near the Mexican Texas settlement of Goliad. The texans ended up winning driving Mexico back. -
Issue of slavery in Texas
Texas was wholly Southern in its attitude towards slavery. Technically, slavery had been illegal under Mexican law. However, the Mexicans were never effective in preventing American slave owners from bringing slaves to Texas, and slave smuggling was a lucrative business along the Texas coast. -
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Alamo
Santa Anna's Army began to arrive in San Antonio de Bexár on February 23, 1836. Their arrival prompted members of the Texan Army to enter the Alamo, which was by now heavily fortified. The Alamo had 18 serviceable cannons and approximately 150 men at the start of the siege. On March 6, 1836, after 13 days of intermittent fighting, the Battle of the Alamo comes to a gruesome end, capping off a pivotal moment in the Texas Revolution. The Mexicans win and take the Alamo. -
San Jacinto
The Battle of San Jacinto, fought on April 21, 1836, in present-day La Porte and Pasadena, Texas, was the final and decisive battle of the Texas Revolution. Led by General Samuel Houston, the Texan Army engaged and defeated General Antonio López de Santa Anna's Mexican army in a fight that lasted just 18 minutes. -
Sam Houston
Sam Houston had arrived in Texas, almost thirty years prior, in 1832. The former congressman and governor of Tennessee's new cause was Texas independence. He led the army that defeated Mexican General Santa Anna at San Jacinto in 1836—an achievement that secured his place in Texas history. -
Annexation of Texas
Texas was annexed by the United States in 1845 and became the 28th state. Until 1836, Texas had been part of Mexico, but in that year a group of settlers from the United States who lived in Mexican Texas declared independence.
The paper was drafted in February of 1844 and signed in April of 1844. -
Mexican Cession
The Mexican Cession is the region in the modern-day southwestern United States that Mexico originally controlled, then ceded to the United States in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 after the Mexican–American War. -
Abolitionists
Abolitionists was never significant in Texas, although antebeallum Texans often expressed fear concerning its presence. There were Unionists in Texas. There wasn't a lot of abolitionists, though many had strayed away from solid Southern sentiment enough to wonder whether slavery did not operate to retard Southern progress. -
Secession
exas secession movements, also known as the Texas independence movement or Texit, refers to the secession of Texas during the American Civil War as well as activities of modern organizations supporting such efforts to secede from the United States and become an independent sovereign state. -
Civil War
The American Civil War was fought between the United States of America and the Confederate States of America , a collection of eleven southern states that left the Union in 1860 and 1861. The conflict began primarily as a result of the long-standing disagreement over the institution of slavery. -
Beginning of Texas
Texans signed the Texas Declaration of Independence at Washington-on-the-Brazos, effectively creating the Republic of Texas. -
Segregation
Back then was the separation of colored from whites. The law was separate but equal they were separate but unequal. The white facilites where much nicer than colored facilites. This started around 1865. -
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Reconstruction
Reconstruction, attempts were made to rebuild the country after the Civil War, bring the former Confederate states back in, and to redress the political, social, and economic issues of slavery. -
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Jim Crow and Black Codes
Jim Crow and Black Codes originated from a certain set of racist laws, America was separate and unequal. Jim Crow was a symbol of racism. -
Juneteenth
Juneteenth was the day when slaves in the south got the word that they had been freed. The information was 2 years old, no one told them. -
Hate groups / lynchings
The KKK was a white suprmeist group that would kill people of color for any reason and the government was so corrupt they could get away with murder. They're would be lynchings were they would hang people of color and have a horrible type of carnival with it. it started in 1882