Settling Texas
- the new country emerged essentially bankrupt from the war against spain
- mexico emcouraged settlers to create their own militias for protection against hostile indian tribes
- texas was very sparsely populated and in the hope that an influx of settlers could control the indian raids, the gov. liberalized immigration policies for the region
- the first group of colonists, known as the old three hundred, had arrived in 1822 to settle an empresarial (business) grant that had been given to stephen F. austin
- the mexican born settlers in texas were soon outnumbered by people born in the united states
- this scared the mexican government
- reasons:
- cheap land for the americans
- new frontier
- a weak country, doubted too many laws because they wanted the settlers there for protection from the hostile indians
- the property tax law, intended to exempt immigrants from paying taxes for ten years, was overturned, and tariffs were increased on goods shipped from the united states
- texas settlers had to comply with the federal prohibition against slavery or face military intervention
- the texan settlers didn't comply and a few years later, they outnumbered the mexicans 4:1 and had almost as many slaves as they did people
- the 2 major conflicts:
- the battle of the alamo
- texans lost
- all texans died
- lasted 13 days
- famous people there: travis, crockett, bowie, austin, santa anna
- battle of san jacinto
- texans won
- 18 minute battle
- sneak attack, caught them sleeping
- famous people, santa anna, houston
- the battle of the alamo
- republic of texas
- results of texas revo:
- republic of texas 1836-1845
- mexico will try to regain texas but fails
- results of texas revo:
- texas revolution summary
- the texas revolution was the military conflict between the government of mexico and texas colonists that began October 2, 1835
- resulted in the establishment of the republic of texas after the final battle on april 21, 1836
- conflicts between the two nations continued into the 1840s, finally being resolved with the mexican american war of 1846 to 1848 after the annexation of texas to the united states
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