Texan Independence

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    Tensions between Texas and Mexico

    Mexico forbidden sale or purchase of slaves, Mexico declined $1 million for Texas from John Quincy Adams, people establishing settlements
  • Battle of Gonzales

    The first military engagement between Texas and Mexico for the Texas Revolution
  • Battle of Goliad

    the second skirmish in the war. Texans attacked the Mexican army at Presidio La Bahía
  • The Alamo

    A turning point in the war. It was a 13-day siege, about 300 Mexicans were killed, all of the texan army died-between 182 and 257.
  • Texas Declared Independence from Mexico

    American Texans held a convention at Washington-on-the-Brazos and declared independence from mexico
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    The Republic of Texas

    An individual country after it got independence from Mexico
  • Battle of San Jacinto

    The president of Mexico Santa Anna was taken as a prisoner of war, the texans won
  • Treaty of Velasco

    2 documents signed at Velasco, Texas. it stated that Texas and Mexico stopped the fighting and to offer the first steps to the recognition of the republic's independence.
  • Texan Annexation

    Texas joined the U.S.A.