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Texas Expansion
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Land Grant's
Mexicans gave land to Americans that wanted to move to Mexico and live their lives there. -
"Texas's Old Three Hundred"
The name is used to refer to the settlers who received land grants in Stephen F. Austin's first colony.The majority of the Old Three Hundred colonists were from the Trans-Appalachian South; the largest number were from Louisiana, followed by Alabama, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Missouri. -
Stephen Austin
Stephen F. Austin, commonly known as the father of texas led the second colonization of the region by bringing 300 families from the United States to the region in 1825. Also, he worked with the Mexican government to support immigration from the United States. -
Mexico sealing borders and raising taxes
Rescinded all contracts that had not been completed and prohibited Americans from settling in any Mexican territory next to the United States -
Texas Revolution
When colonists in the Mexican province rebelled against the centralist Mexican government. The hostilities erupted when the Mexicans and Texans kept on clashing. Fighting happened and a lot of colonists fled and ran away. -
Goliad
It was the second skirmish of the Texas Revolution. 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 Texans prepared to defend the Alamo together. The texans held out against Santa Anna's army for 13 days.The had 32 volunteers arrive to help them. The spanish eventually one after the thirteen days. -
Houston becomes president
Sam Houston is elected as president of the Republic of Texas, which earned its independence from Mexico in a successful military rebellion. He died of pneumonia in 1863. -
Battle of San Jacinto
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. Santa Anna, the President of Mexico, was captured and surrendered. -
Texas joins the union
Six months after the congress of the Republic of Texas accepts U.S. annexation of the territory, Texas is admitted into the United States as the 28th state. After gaining independence from Spain in the 1820s, Mexico welcomed foreign settlers to sparsely populated Texas.
