Texas Revolution

Emprosarios

Filibusters

Texans deserve to be treated as patriotic fighters with the right to defend their homes.

Texans are brave opponents who may defeat the Mexican army.

Texans are wrong to challenge the Mexican government and must be defeated.

Texans should be allowed to surrender to the Mexican army without additional bloodshed.

vaqueros

Tejanos

Germany

France

Spain

Great Britain

Louisiana

Florida

Texas

Convert American filibusters to Mexican citizens

To ensure Native Americans equal land rights

Keep American squatters out of Mexico

Converted to Catholicism and learned Spanish

Learned English and bathed weekly

Paid $100.00 yearly and learned Spanish

Sheldon Cooper

Antonio Lopez De Santa Anna

Stephen F. Austin

Viola De Lopez Davis

Public education

immigration tests

mullets

slavery

The Regulation of 1839

The Laws of April 6, 1830

The Laws of Retribution

Benito Juarez

Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna

Sam Houston

Because Texas had slavery, it would mean more slave states than free states in the U.S.

Texas would have to free all of their slaves and there was nowhere for them to go.

Many people believed Texas was too big and would want to take over the Union