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Land grants
Mexicans offered enormous Land Grants to agents. -
Mexico’s efforts to seal borders and raise taxes on imports
1830 President Anastasio Bustamante banned any further immigration from the United States to Texas. -
Goliad
Texas settlers attacked the Mexican Army soldiers garrisoned at Presidio La Bahía, a fort near the Mexican Texas settlement of Goliad -
alamo
Battle was between the Mexican Troops and the Texians. Texians won. -
Texas Revolution
When colonists ebelled against the increasingly centralist Mexican government. -
Battle of San Jacinto
The Battle of San Jacinto, fought on April 21, 1836, in present-day Harris County, Texas, was 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. -
Stephen F. Austin
was an American empresario born in Virginia. -
Texas's old three hundred
The Old Three Hundred were the 297 grantees, made up of families and some partnerships of unmarried men.