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To defend the land from hostile Native Americans, the Spanish government offered large tracts of land to empresarios.
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Mexico gains independence from spain. Texas is now a part of Mexico.
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Slavery was outlawed in Texas. But Austin convinced the government to let the slave owners keep their current slaves.
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The population in the colony swelled to 25,000 and outnumbered the tejanos 6 to 1.
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Austin went to Mexico City to present a list of requests to Mexican officials. The Mexican president agreed with most of the reforms, but then he learned of a treasonous letter that Austin wrote! Santa Anna jailed Austin for almost a year. This made the Texans angry, so they got ready to rebel
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Mexican soldiers were sent to the town of Gonzalez with orders to seize a cannon the Texans used for protection from the random Native Americans attacks. Texas volunteers hung a flag on the cannon saying, Come and Take It, but the soldiers couldn't.
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Sam Houston and his army surprised Santa Anna and in 18 minutes, half the mexican army was killed. They forced Santa Anna to sign a treaty saying Texas is an independent country.
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Texans met with/at a settlement called Washington on the Brazos
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The Mexican president Santa Anna's troops went into San Antonio and the next day sieged the Alamo. Alamo's defenders surrvived the Mexicans off for 12 days. Then Santa Anna sent 1,800 troops to storm the fortress. All but 7 Texans were dead and more than 1,000 mexican soldiers dead.
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The new Texan government asked the U.S. Congress if they could join the U.S., with the Union but Congress voted no because they didn't want to throw slave and non-slave states out of balance. The U.S. also didn't want a war with the Mexican army for taking in the Texans.
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Texans raised the official flag of the nation of Texas, nicknamed the Lone Star Republic. Sam Houston was their first president.
