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In September 1810 Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, a Mexican priest, led a rebellion of about 80,000 poor Indians and mestizos, or people of Indian and Spanish ancestry.
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Mexico became independent.
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one young agent, Stephen F. Austin, started a colony on the lower Colorado River. These first 300 families became known as the Old Three Hundred.
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They adopted a republican constitution that declared rights for all Mexicans.
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the Texans held out.
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while Mexican troops were resting, Houston’s forces swarmed the camp, shouting, “Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad!”
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the republic organized the Texas Rangers to guard its long frontier from Mexican and Native American attacks.
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Finally, Jackson did recognize Texas as an independent nation. France did so in
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the United States had a booming economy and population.
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Britain, which wanted to halt U.S. expansion, recognized Texas
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Texas and Mexico signed a peace treaty.
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the Whigs passed up Tyler and chose Senator Henry Clay of Kentucky as their presidential candidate
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O’Sullivan coined the term in
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Great Britain and the United States signed a treaty that gave the United States all Oregon land south of the forty-ninth parallel.
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General Taylor led his troops to the Rio Grande. He camped across from Mexican forces stationed near the town of Matamoros, Mexico
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This treaty drew the border that still exists today. Oregon became an organized U.S. territory in February