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Mexican Independance from Spain
11 years after the war spain agrees to make Mexico indpendant -
Stephen Austin settles Texas
Stephen Austin lef 300 families to the region -
Texas declares
Independence was issued during a revolution against the mexico goverment -
Battle of Alamo
Mexicans attacked texans and texans won -
Battle of San Jacinto
630 mexcan soldiers were killed and only nine texans -
Texas wins its Independance
Mexican government soon understood that it had committed a great error by encouraging the migration of U.S. citizens with a hankering for independence. -
Texas Annexation
During his tenure, President James K. Polk oversaw the greatest territorial expansion of the United States to date. -
Mexican-American War
The first U.S. armed conflict fought on foreign soil. -
Tready of Guadalupe-Hidalgo/MExican Cession
The treaty added an additional 525,000 square miles to United States territory -
Gadsen Purchase
an agreement between the United States and Mexico, in which the United States agreed to pay Mexico $10 million for a 29,670 square mile portion of Mexico that later became part of Arizona and New Mexico
