Texas Expansion Timeline

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  • “texas’s old three hundred”

    was 297 people (families, or business partners) who purchased 300 acres of land. this was finished by stephen austin after his father died and left the plan for him

  • land grants

    to prevent border violations from thieves and to protect the natives the mexicans offered a lot of land grants to agents who were called empresarios

  • austin in texas

    stephen F. Austin, established a colony between the brazos and the colorado river in 1824

  • Stephen Austin

    was born in Virginia and raised in Missouri
    he led the second successful colonization of missouri by bringing 300 families to the region in 1825.

  • come to texas

    mexico sealed the boarders and taxed imports heavily

  • battle of almo

    in 1835 the texans attacked they drove the mexicans away from the almo

  • texas joins the union

    exas declared themselves part of the union

  • lone star rebpublic

    santa annas troops executed 300 rebels at golidad

  • houston becomes president

    fter they defeated santa anna the people made sam houston the president of the Republic of texas