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The Colony of Texas is founded
the colonists should be Roman Catholics or agree before they entered int the Spanish Colony.that they should furnish undoubted evidence of good character and habits, and take an oath of fidelity to the king, to defend the government and political constitution of the Spanish monarchy. In addition, they were to be Louisianians. -
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Mexico places restrictions on American immigration
Mexico sealed its border and slapped a heavy tax on the importantion of American goods. Mexico however sufficient troop to police its borders well. -
Stephen Austin meets with Mexican President Santa Anna
Stephen F. Austin presents another Texan convention's resolutions in Mexico. -
Battle of the Alamo
To the surprise of the defenders, Santa Anna's army arrived outside of San Antonio on February 23. Having marched through driving snow and foul weather, Santa Anna reached the town a month sooner than the Texans anticipated. Surrounding the mission, Santa Anna sent a courier requesting the Alamo's surrender -
Treaty of Velasco grants Texas Independence
is signed and the Republic of Texas is declared. -
Battle of San Jacinto
indelibly inscribed the names of Texas patriots on history's scroll of American immortals. The actual battle of San Jacinto lasted less than twenty minutes, but it was in the making for six years. It had its prelude in the oppressive Mexican edict of April 6, 1830, prohibiting further emigration of Anglo-Americans from the United States to Texas; in the disturbance at Anahuac and in the battle of Velasco, in 1832; in the imprisonment of Stephen F. Austin, the "Father of Texas," in Mexico in 183 -
U.S. annexes Texas
six days before Polk took office, Congress passed the joint resolution.Not long afterward, Andrew Jackson Donelson, the American chargé d'affaires in Texas and the nephew of former president Andrew Jackson, presented the American resolution to President Anson Jones of Texas -
Slidell's Rejection
He also was instructed to offer, among other alternatives, a maximum of $30 million for California by Polk and his administration.Slidell hinted to Polk that the Mexican reluctance to negotiate might require a show of military force by the United States -
Gold discovered at Sutter's Mill, California
Marshall found several flakes of gold that began the transformation of California from a sleepy outpost to a bustling center of activity.[1] Sutter and Marshall tried to keep the discovery secret, but eventually the word got out -
U.S. declares war on Mexico
The Mexican government had long warned the United States that annexation of Texas would mean war. Because the Mexican Congress had refused to recognize Texan independence, Mexico saw Texas as a rebellious territory that would be retaken. Britain and France, which recognized the independence of Texas, repeatedly tried to dissuade Mexico from declaring war. When Texas joined the U.S. as a state in 1845, the Mexican government broke diplomatic relations with the U.S. -
General Taylor marches troops across Rio Grande
Taylor had to wait until May 18 for boats to move his army across the Rio Grande. When the Americans finally moved into Matamoros, they found that the Mexican force had disappeared into the interior. -
Zachary Taylor elected president
was the 12th President of the United States and an American military leader. Taylor ran as a Whig in the 1848 presidential election, defeating Lewis Cass and becoming the first man elected to the Presidency without having held any previous elected office. He served in the US Army for over forty years and as 'Old Rough and Ready' had a reputation for never losing a battle. -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
is the peace treaty, largely dictated by the United States[1][2] to the interim government of a militarily occupied Mexico City, that ended the Mexican-American War. -
California applies for statehood
The third statute of the Compromise of 1850 allowed California to be admitted to the Union, undivided, as a free state on September 9, 1850 -
Gasden Purchase
s a 29,670-square-mile (76,800 km2) region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that was purchased by the United States in a treaty signed by James Gadsden, the American ambassador to Mexico at the time, on December 30, 1853. It was then ratified, with changes, by the U.S. Senate on April 25, 1854 and signed by President Franklin Pierce, with final approval action taken by Mexico on June 8, 1854.
