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Stephen Austin led the first groups of American settlers to a fertile area.
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Mexico offered enormous land grants to agents, or "empresarios". Mexico encouraged Americans to settle in Texas to prevent violations from horse theives and to protect the area from Native American attacks.
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Stephen Austin issued 297 land grants to a group that later got the name, "Texas's Old Three Hundred".
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Mexico sealed its borders and put a heavy tax on American goods. Mexico did not have enough troops to control its border. Therefore, the Anglo population of Texas doubled in the next four years.
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Santa Anna became president of Mexico. He began to revoke local powers in Texas and other Mexican states. These events along with tension between Mexicans and Americans over cultural differences would lead up to severial rebellions which would later be known as the Texas Revolution.
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During Texas's war with Mexico over independence, a group of Texan volunteers occupied the Alamo for thirteen days until Santa Anna's force of Mexican troops overwhelmed them, and the Texans were defeated.
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Mexicans slaughtered captured Texans after the Alamo.
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The Texas militia under orders from Sam Houston, surprise attacked Santa Anna's forces. Texans won the battle while recieving their independence. Santa Anna was captured along with other troops. In exchange for his life, he signed over Texas.
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Sam Houston was elected president of the Republic of Texas.
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Texas became the 28th state.
