Argumentative Essay: The Texas Revolutionary War

The Texas Revolutionary War is a war that is depicted by the American people to be a war that was fought and was justified to better the lives of the Texian and American people, making the Texian’s the “good guys” in the American point of view in this war. My beliefs is that the Mexican Government was only trying to defend their struggling government and land from being taken over by Anglo settlers from the United States that believed in slavery and also was against a Centralized Mexican Government. The Mexican Empire was a very big and widely spread Nation, making the Mexican Government struggle to maintain the land and keep their residence in order. Many of the Anglo Settlers that migrated to what is now know as Texas were wealthy slave owners and Americans who were fleeing debt or hoping to strike riches in new lands. Being that Slavery was outlawed in Mexico meant that the Mexican Government did not condone the practice of slavery; since many of the Anglo settlers where wealthy farmers and their crop demanded slave work, it made the Anglo’s feel that the practice of slavery was in danger from the Mexican Government leading to the start of the Texas Revolutionary War. …show more content…
However the Texas Republic army was not made of all Anglo people, some members that rebelled where Tejano’s that where Mexican born residence, that did not agree with the laws and the direction that the Mexican President Antonio Lopez De Santa Anna was giving. Many of the Tejano’s where not fighting for the same reasons that the Anglo settlers where fighting for, but their reasoning was great enough that it lead to them taking up arms and fighting for their land and