Texas Revolution

  • Land grants

    Land grants
    Mexicans offered enormous Land Grants to agents.
  • Mexico’s efforts to seal borders and raise taxes on imports

    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

    Goliad
    Texas settlers attacked the Mexican Army soldiers garrisoned at Presidio La Bahía, a fort near the Mexican Texas settlement of Goliad
  • alamo

    alamo
    Battle was between the Mexican Troops and the Texians. Texians won.
  • Texas Revolution

    Texas Revolution
    When colonists ebelled against the increasingly centralist Mexican government.
  • Battle of San Jacinto

    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

    Stephen F. Austin
    was an American empresario born in Virginia.
  • Texas's old three hundred

    Texas's old three hundred
    The Old Three Hundred were the 297 grantees, made up of families and some partnerships of unmarried men.