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Stephen Austin meets with Mexican President Santa Anna
established a colony between the Brazos and Colorado rivers, where “no drunkard, no gambler, no profane swearer, and no idler” would be allowed.
Austin had issued 297 land grants to the group that later became known as Texas’s Old Three Hundred. -
Battle of the Alamo
- a fort in San Antonio Texas, where Mexicans massacred texans
- most visited monument in texas
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Battle of San Jacinto
Led by General Sam Houston, the Texian Army defeated Mexican forces in a fight that lasted only eighteen minutes.
630 of the Mexican soldiers were killed and 730 captured, and only nine Texans died. -
Treaty of Velasco grants Texas Independence
Between Antonio López de Santa Anna of Mexico and the Republic of Texas
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Slidell's Rejection
-Polk sent John Slidell to Mexico to purchase California and New Mexico and to gain approval of the Rio Grande as the Texas border
-Polk then issued orders for General Zachary Taylor to march to the Rio Grande and blockade the river. -
U.S. annexes Texas
- Sam Housten invited the US to include Texas
- divided along sectional lines
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General Taylor marches troops across Rio Grande
-Taylor positioned his troops at the Rio Grande, Mexico.
-responded by sending their forces to the Rio Grande to win its territory back. -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends war with Mexico
exico agreed to the Rio Grande border for Texas and ceded New Mexico and California to the US.
-The US agreed to pay $15 million for present-day California, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, most of Arizona, and parts of Colorado and Wyoming. -
US declares war on Mexico
- American forces invaded New Mexico, the California Republic, and parts of what is currently northern Mexico -The US won the war and it resulted in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
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Gasden Purchase
-Established the current borders of the lower 48 states.
-James Gadsden payed Mexico an additional $10 million for another piece of territory south of the Gila River
