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Stephen Austin establishes a colony in Texas
The economic panic in 1819 led his father to conceive a plan to colonize Texas on land obtained from the Mexican government. Austin continued the project after his father died (1821) and founded a colony of several hundred families on the Brazos River in 1822. -
Stephen Austin meets with Mexican President Santa Anna
Stepham Austin had petitions for the Self Governing of Texas that he was going to present The President had him imprisoned for his idea of a revolution, he also suspended the 1824 Mexican Constitution -
Mexico places restrictions on American immigration
Mexico shut it's boders and taxed the importation of American goods.
In addition to the above, they were also Against slavery -
Treaty of Velsaco grants Texas independence
in 1829 the Mexican president of African/Indian decent ended slavery in Mexico and its territories which the rich land owners depended on the exploitation of the slaves to keep there financial standings. If you are not convinced this is why Texas wanted to split -
Battle of the Alamo
Santa Anna had to destroy the Resistance for political reasons and because the Texans were stealing the Mexicans land. Battle ended april 21st -
Battle of San Jacinto
The Texans were fighting for independence from Mexico. It was a turning point in the war as the Mexican General Santa Anna was captured. -
U.S. Annexes Texas
The annexation of Texas to the United States became a topic of political and diplomatic discussion after the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and became a matter of international concern between 1836 and 1845, when Texas was a republic -
General Taylor marches troops across Rio Grande
resident Polk claimed the Rio Grande boundary, and this provoked a dispute with Mexico. In June 1845, Polk sent General Zachary Taylor to Texas, and by October 3,500 Americans were on the Nueces River, prepared to defend Texas from a Mexican invasion. Polk wanted to protect the border and also coveted the continent clear to the Pacific Ocean. -
▪ Slidell's Rejection
Sidell's plan/mission was rejected after the U.S. declared war on Mexico -
U.S. declares war with Mexico
On May 13, 1846, the U.S. Congress overwhelmingly votes in favor of President James K. Polk's request to declare war on Mexico in a dispute over Texas.
Under the threat of war, the United States had refrained from annexing Texas after the latter won independence from Mexico in 1836. But in 1844, President John Tyler restarted negotiations with the Republic of Texas, culminating with a Treaty of Annexation. -
Gold discovered at Sutter's Mill, California
The location of the sawmill would change California history. In January of 1848, as the sawmill was nearing completion, Marshall spotted something shiny near the riverbank. The workmen were finding those shiny stones everywhere. Later, it was determined that those shiny rocks were gold nuggets! Sutter and Marshall decided to keep the discovery a secret. They knew the discovery of gold would change everything. -
Treaty of Gudalupe Hidalgo Ends war with mexico
Under the terms of the treaty negotiated by Trist, Mexico ceded to the United States Upper California and New Mexico. This was known as the Mexican Cession and included present-day Arizona and New Mexico and parts of Utah, Nevada, and Colorado (see Article V of the treaty). Mexico relinquished all claims to Texas and recognized the Rio Grande as the southern boundary with the United States (see Article V). -
Zachary Taylor elected presodent
Mexican-American War General Zachary Taylor of Louisiana, an attractive candidate because of his successes on the battlefield, but who had never voted in an election himself, was openly courted by both the Democratic and Whig parties. Taylor ultimately declared himself a Whig, and easily took their nomination, receiving 171 delegate votes to defeat Henry Clay, Winfield Scott, Daniel Webster and others. -
California Applies for statehoo
Taylor believed that the people of California—in which he hoped to include the Mormons around Salt Lake—and New Mexico should be allowed to decide for themselves whether or not to permit slavery by writing constitutions and applying immediately for statehood. In this way, he hoped to avoid the increasingly rancorous sectional debate over congressional prohibition of slavery in any territorial governments organized in the area. Many in the South, however, feared that the addition of two free stat -
Gasden Purchase
U.S. purchase of land in southern New Mexico and Arizona south of the Gila River on December 30, 1853. It was purchased to get approval for a southern railroad route to the Pacific Coast in that territory.
