Battle of San Jacinto

In 1829, American settlers began to reside in Mexico’s territories in the southwest, disregarding their customs and laws. American colonists in Texas protested Mexican rule, sparking the Texas Revolution in 1835. Soon after, Mexican dictator Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna attacked Alamo and won, but the Treaty of Velasco gave Texas independence and created the border between Texas and Mexico (Berkin 314). Unfortunately, Mexicans wanted renegotiation of the treaty, threatening war. On April 22, 1846…

conquistadors from 1519 to 1522. Mexico was under the control of Spain until 1821 when it won independence. The next major war that Mexico fought was with the United States of America from 1835 to 1836. Most notable battles where the battle of the Alamo and the battle of San Jacinto. Mexico then fought the United States of America in the Mexican-American war from 1846 to 1848. The loss of the Mexican-American war resulted in the establishment of Mexico’s northern border with the United…

The Texas Constitution: Explaining the Foundations of the Lone Star State The current Texas Constitution is a document, which was accepted on February 15, 1876. It is the seventh written constitution of Texas. It contains sixteen articles and places many restrictions on government. Although it is the supreme law in the State, it also falls under Article IV, Clause 2 of the U.S. Constitution, also known as the Supremacy Clause. Much like the U.S. Constitution, the Texas Constitution establishes…

Justified or Not Justified: The Mexican War “The most dramatic event in the history of relations between Mexico and the United States took place a century and a half ago” (Velasco-Marquez, 327) The Mexican War took place in 1856, not too long after the Battle of the Alamo in 1836. In 1844, Texas was annexed into the United States just as President Polk was coming into office. This eventually lead to the Mexican War, a war that happened because the U.S. and Mexico couldn’t agree on the…

The Texas Revolution began with the Battle of Gonzales in October 1835 and ended with the Battle of San Jacinto on April 21, 1836. The Mexican-American War, also called Mexican War, was a war that was fought between the United States and Mexico beginning in April 1846 and ending in February 1848 with the signing of the Treaty…

A slave owner who was attributed for taming the American plains, a land full of violent Indian tribes and hostile Mexican armies fought for the rights of his slaves, the Indians who plagued his land, and the people he led. This is the perplexing story of Sam Houston, one of America's most influential men and unlikely civil rights leader. Sam Houston, the first president of Texas and two-time congressman, believed in equal rights for all. He was an advocate for many types of “civil rights…

States entered the global conflict in Europe, but it’s Regular Army was not trained to conduct synchronized combined arms operations on the level of their Allies. The first display of large-scale, combined arms operations by the United States was the Battle of Cantigny on May 28th, 1918. Cantigny marked an important transition in the strategic organization of the American Military and set the stage for the United States to become active participants in global warfare. This chapter will focus…

182 soldiers who fought in the war, nearly 10,790 died from disease and exposure to the unsteady weather much smaller number 1,548volunteers, died on the battle field General George B. McClellan and Winfield Scott looked amazed at the horrible destructives n there army from diseases. They say that almost 10 percent of all deaths not during a battle were caused by disease and infection.…

The North and the South progressed transformational developments differently due to slavery, religion, politics, and economics. The South was very economically reliant on slavery. Many people in the South were farmers and grew crops such as rice, tobacco, and especially cotton. The Cotton Kingdom was growing because of the necessity of that product. Many southerners thought they needed more land because of the global demand for cotton. Many southerners believed that since the Cotton…

This is the purchase that took America all the way to the Pacific, but it was far from easy. To begin, there was conflict going on in Texas already. The Texans were fighting for their independence from Mexico. Because of Sam Houston’s victory at San Jacinto, Texas was an independent nation with Houston as the first president. This now opened up the opportunity for annexation by the United States under Andrew Jackson. However, it was not until after both Jackson and Martin Van Buren’s…