There are many reasons to why Texas embarked on its revolution. Such causes are the idea of manifest destiny, racism present between the different cultures in the area, governmental issues with settlers, the geographic of Texas, and most importantly the institution of slavery. Americans thought of themselves having the authority from a higher power to keep expanding west until reaching a coast. Even though Texas was a part of Mexico, most of the land was inhabited. So, Anglos deemed it okay to start settling the land. They became known as “squatters”. Mexico did not have many inhabitants in Texas because it was the furthest northern territory thus making it unreachable for their citizens at the time. Some Anglos did have permission to settle
