The Texas War for Independence

Sarah HarmisonNicole Mischler

Why Did Mexico Invite American Settlers to Texas

•To prevent border violations by horse thieves•To protect the territory from Native American attacks•Mexico offered land grants to empresarios

Key Mexican Leader

Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna

Anglo Settlers Rebel• Slavery• Religious

differences

• Cultural Differences

• The Americans did not want to follow the laws of Mexico

• The 1824 Mexican Constitution was suspended by Santa Anna

"Remember the Alamo"

•Determined to force Texas to obey laws he had established, Santa Anna marched toward San Antonio with a 4000 member army•Alamo - an abandoned mission and fort

The Battle of the Alamo  http://military.discovery.com/videos/unsolved-history-military-battle-of-the-alamo.html

Key Members of the Alamo

• Jim Bowie •  Davy Crockett

Key Members             Sam Houston             Stephen F. Austin

"I listened with an acuteness of sense which no man can understand whose hearing has not been sharpened by the teachings of the dwellers of the forest."(292 Holt McDougal)

"Bastrop...continues to grow rapidly. It is a favorite spot for new settlers, and is quite the rage at present...It is situated on the bend of the [Colorado], sloping beautifully done to the water, with ranges of timber-first oak, then pine, then cedar, rising in the regular succession behind it."( 290 Holt McDougal)

"Texas needs peace, and a local government; its inhabitants are farmers, and they need a calm and quiet life. . . . [But] my efforts to serve Texas involved me in the labyrinth of Mexican politics. I was arrested, and have suffered a long persecution and imprisonment. . . . I fully hoped to have found Texas at peace and in tranquillity, but regret to find it in commotion; all dis-organized, all in anarchy, and threatened with immediate hostilities. . . . Can this state of things exist without precipitating the country into a war? I think it cannot."(288 Holt McDougal)

The Lone Star Republic

• After the Mexicans won the Alamo, the Americans retaliated

• "Remember the Alamo"• Americans captured Santa Anna• Treaty of Velasco• As a result, Houston became

president of Republic of Texas

Treaty of Velasco

Texas Joins the Union

• March 2,1836:Texans declared their independence from Mexico

• March 16th: they ratified a Constitution based on that of the United States

• 1838: Sam Houston invited the United States to annex the Texas republic into the United States

• December 29,1845: Texas became the 28th state in the Union

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