Alamo
- background
- Famous for battle of the Alamo
- Located in San Antonio
- Built 1724
- February 23-March 6th, 1836
- Texans occupied the Alamo
- Mexican forces led by Santa Anna attacked
- about 170 Texan against 1,600-6,000 Mexicans
- Texans heavily outnumbered
- Held for 13 days
- no one survived
- Davy Crockett
- Born Aug 17, 1786
- Battle of Alamo
- Leader of the Tennessee Volunteers
- William Barret Travis
- Texas Commander at the Battle of the Alamo
- Studied law and became a practicing attorney
- was 26 when he died
- born Aug 9th, 1809
- Co-leader of the Alamo with Bowie
- San Jacinto
- Texans crushed the Mexican army
- resulting in a kill/loss ratio of about 77/8
- Importance of San Jacinto
- The battle of the Alamo really showed of how much they wanted to be separate from Mexico
- Their battle cry was Remember the Alamo
- Tejanos
- Natives in Texas
- also believed in independence
- Fall of Santa Anna
- Santa Anna fought more battles than Napoleon and Washington combined
- Defeated at the Battle of San Jacinto
- Next day he was taken captive into Texas by a small band of Texan forces led by James Sylvester
- Only a 18 minute battle
- re-entered politics and was elected president for the 5th time
- 1836-1876
- Santa Anna was elected president 11 times
- Turmoil of the Mexican government
- even to this day Mexico was issues with voting fraud
- Mexico's response to annexing Texas
- Mexico's response to annexing Texas was to declare war
- led to the Mexican-American War
- America gained most of the Southwest because of this
- La reforma
- period in the 19th century characterized by liberal reforms designed to modernize Mexico and turn it into a nation state
- goals:
- land reditribution
- separation of the church and the state
- increase learning opportunities
- started by Juàrez
- Juàrez rises to power
- led his nation to modernize
Anglo Texas Revolt
- Anglo
- white, English speaking American as distinct for a Hispanic American
- An American that was going into Mexico (Texas) territory
- Why would people go there
- Inexpensive land
- more independence
- Their ways of life were ruining the soil and it was unsuitable for cotton
- Spain and Mexico governments were making a lot of land available for Anglos
- Why it started
- Cultural Differences
- learning the new language
- becoming Roman Catholic
- forced to be in the Mexican military
- following the Napoleonic Code
- Slavery
- there were no slaves under Mexican government
- Any slave that passes the border was made free
- Physical isolation of Texas
- Mexico City was far away from Texas
- Cultural Differences
- Sam Houston
- led Texas at the battle of San Jacinto
- Santa Anna
- forced to sign a treaty 3 weeks later after he was captured
- First violent incident
- Battle of Velasco
- June 26th, 1832
- Texans attacked and won
- Texas declaration of Independence
- March 2nd, 1836
- Effects of the war
- Slavery
- considered a slave slate
- Many people died
- Republic of Texas
- Slavery
- Why Americans didn't follow Mexican laws
- Mexico incited Americans to settle in Texas
- Mexico won its independence from Spain
- The Texas territory rebelled against Mexico bc they didn't want to
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