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The battle of the Alamo was a huge part of Texas history. -
Mexico has gained independence from Spain. -
The Mexican government allowed empresario Haden Edwards to bring settlers to Nacogdoches but when he got there, lots of settlers had already claimed the land for themselves. He threatend them to show proof that they had land titles and they didn't like this and reported the matter to the Mexican government officials and they revocked his contract. He started to claim little parts of Texas in the east, the Mexican army found out about the matter and then took down his rebellion. -
They send him to check out the fredonian Rebellion. He found out that Mexican infuence had been deacreased northward. Anglo settlers outnumbered tejanos 10 to 1. -
Stopped all immigration from United States. Terminated the anglo empresario contracts. Outlawed Bringing slaves to Texas. Increased tarrifs on imported goods from the United States. Established military posts in Texas. -
These played pretty important parts becuase a lot of new decisions where made like making a constitution, requesting the ban on American immigration, request tarrifs for Texas Ect. -
He arrived to mexico city while they where having a civil war and also facing a epidemic. When he actually got to meet Santa Anna the president decided to allow us immigration but didnt agree to setup Texas as a separate state. The mexican athorites intercepted his letter and sent him to prison for nearly a year. -
A convention where Texians in San Felipe de Austin served as the provision government during the Texas revolution. -
Around 1000 of General Sam Houston went and put general antonio under attack on the San Jacinto River over coming them and deafting the larger Mexican troop Stopping Mexico's attemp to take down the rebellion. -
This letter was sent to see if they could get backup do to being surrounded and it basically said that if they where to not receive backup they would fight to the death and they would end up dying.