Texas War with Mexico

● Texas Revolution

The Texas Revolution was a war between Mexico and the U.S for the
land of what is now texas.

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What were the leading causes of the starting issues of Mexico and
Americans?

●Texas was a part of Mexico before Americans started to settle there.

● Mexico offered large pieces of land to American families, to be a Mexican citizen. Many
American families started to travel to Mexico (Texas).

●Mexico wanted to increase their settlement and more land settlement control.

●They wanted to remove the Native Americans and invited Americans over since that was the
Northern part of their country was only being settled in by Natives.

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Why were Americans moving to the Mexican territory of Texas in the 1820s?

●Mexico had won independence from Spain

●Texas was a part of Mexico before Americans started to settle there.

●Mexico offered large pieces of land to American families, to be a Mexican citizen.

● Many American families started to travel to Mexico (Texas). Mexico wanted to get rid of
slavery in the region.

★ What were the battles of Gonzales and Alamo?

●Gonzales was fought over the possession of a small cannon.

●It was the first battle of the Texas Revolution and marked separation between the
Texans and the Mexican government

●The Alamo was a Spanish mission to put out there as a place to put out there as a
settlement in Mexico-to put their Catholic faith out there and government as well.

●Mexico broke through a breach of the wall in the courtyard of the Alamo and massacred
everyone in the Alamo.

★ What were the battles of Goliad and San Jacinto?

●Juan López Sandoval was determined to punish bad Texans and viewed them as
pirates who deserved to be killed

●Mexican army marched most of a captured and Texas army ended up surrendering,
only one Mexican soldier ended up being killed and three others wounded and only one
Texian was injured.

●People of the new republic of Texas where outraged by the destruction of the Alamo
and massacre of the unarmed Texans

●Volunteer companies rushed to join General Samuel Houston's Texas army, Texas
ended up winning the last battle with Mexico and the battle only lasted 18 minutes.

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What was the Lone Star Republic and the U.S. annexation of Texas in
the 1840s?

●The Texans won the war, and Texas became an independent nation

●Houston had sent a delegation to Washington D.C. to ask the U.S to take authority of
Texas.

●Andrew Jackson refused the request

●Adding another slave state would interrupt the equality between slave and free states in
Congress.