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Stephen Austin
Austin occupied a complex and difficult position as intermediary between his colonists and the Mexican government. Austin led the first settlers into Texas in December, 1821 -
Land Grants
Tracts of land granted to settlers, known as empresarios, by Mexico to encourage settlement in Texas while it was part of Mexico -
"Texas Old Three Hundred"
The Old Three Hundred were the 297 grantees, made up of families and some partnerships of unmarried men, who purchased 307 parcels of land from Stephen Fuller Austin and established a colony that encompassed an area that ran from the Gulf of Mexico on the south, to near present-day Brenham in Washington County, Texas, Navasota in Grimes County, and La Grange in Fayette County. -
Goliad
The Battle of Goliad was the second skirmish of the Texas Revolution. In the early-morning hours of October 9, 1835, rebellious Texas settlers attacked the Mexican Army soldiers garrisoned at Presidio La Bahía, a fort near the Mexican Texas settlement of Goliad. La Bahía lay halfway between the only other large garrison of Mexican soldiers (at Presidio San Antonio de Bexar) and the then-important Texas port of Copano. -
Battle of the Alamo
On February 23, 1836, the arrival of General Antonio López de Santa Anna's army outside San Antonio nearly caught them by surprise. Undaunted, the Texians and Tejanos prepared to defend the Alamo together. The defenders held out for 13 days against Santa Anna's army. -
Texas joins the union
The bill was signed by United States President Polk on December 29, 1845, accepting Texas as the 28th state of the Union. -
Battle of a San Jacinto
The Battle of San Jacinto, fought on April 21, 1836, in present-day Harris County, Texas, was the decisive battle of the Texas Revolution. Led by General Sam Houston, the Texian Army engaged and defeated General Antonio López de Santa Anna's Mexican army in a fight that lasted just 18 minutes. -
Houston becomes President
Sam Houston becomes president In september 5th 1836 -
Mexicos Efforts to seal borders and raise taxes on imports
The Decree of April 6, 1830 stopped immigration from U.S. to Mexico, placed a custom duty tax on goods coming from U.S. into Texas, did not allow new slaves to enter Texas. -
Texas Revolution
When colonists in the Mexican Province rebelled against the centralists Mexican Government. The hostillities erupted when the Mexicans and Texans kept on clashinf. Fighting happened and a lot of colonists fled and ran away.
