Republic of Texas

The Texas we know today came into being through a particular series of events. If just one of those events was different, then the result would too differ in relation to the cause. The Reconstruction era for example was a chancy time for Texas and its fate. Texas was in a precarious situation. It was on the verge of becoming something new. On the one hand, it was a state conquered and leashed by the United States government. On the other, by succeeding, Texas had a taste of freedom and was thus…

Texas is a vastly populated state in the United State and many types of culture, race, and religion grow within the state. There has been many important events and fascinating history that has occurred on the Texas soil. Many great Americans had contributed in establishing a tremendous state while making history. Therefore, while there are numerous amount of significant heroes and contributors, José Antonio Navarro had demonstrated an achievement for the state of Texas, which constructed the…

settled the dispute over Oregon with Britain, not to avoid conflict, but to deal with conflict arising in the southwest. Mexico urgently broke ties with America right after Texas was granted statehood. However, this didn’t stop the conflicts. Argument over the Texas and Mexico border began to pose a threat on the new state. Texas believed their border was and has always been the Rio Grande river. Mexico argued the…

Spain, Mexico had a enormous amount of territory, spreading all the way from Texas to California. They owned a much larger territory than the United States. In 1836, Texas gained independence from Mexico, but the United States did not include Texas into the union for various reasons: the government not wanting to add a new slave state, and also that the Mexican government warning the United States than any attempt to annex Texas would lead to war. Even after these circumstances the process of…

I believe Texas wouldn’t even make it in a week they would need a lot of help in every way possible, financially, with the military or army, with their own currencies, and with political loss. If Texas even tried to become its own country they will lose money, no citizens would get any help from the government and some families would starve to death, they might lose jobs even people for example some immigrants help us financially and if they see a big change they would either move to a different…

Houston is a vibrant city in Texas that is one of the most diverse in the country in terms of religion, race and language. With large Asian, White, and African American communities, English, Spanish, Vietnamese and Chinese are spoken on a regular basis by many of Houston’s inhabitants. Created just following the Texas Revolution, Houston has an extensive history. Prior to the Civil War, many enslaved Africans worked near the city on either cotton or sugar plantations. By 1860, some 49% of the…

matters to texas is because,he founded the country and the events he set in motion. Stephen F. Austin matters to texas because he founded the country and the events he set in motion. For example, stephen F. Austin went to mexico to discuss many of the laws texans did not approve of and after the mexicans agreed to the terms, when Austin was going back to his colony to tell the news mexican officials imprisoned, after a year he got out of jail and Austin went to texas…

The black bean episode, or the black bean lottery, was the result of the Mier expedition. Alexander Somervell had led his militia to raid border towns, such as Guerrero and Laredo, and decided to quit due to the fear of a deadly clash with Mexican troops. Only 189 troops listened to his orders and went on the long journey back home. Over three hundred troops continued on their journey with their new leader, William S. Fisher. The Texans decided to cross the Rio Grande River and enter the town…

declare war against Mexico and was then able to gain more territory from them. Many Northerners, especially abolitionists, also believed that the war was an attempt by Southerners to spread slavery further and add another slave state to the Union, which Texas would likely become because slavery was already widely spread in the territory. It was unjust for Polk to wage war against Mexico just so that he could expand the country, and slavery. The Mexican-American war was unjustified. Neither the…

Stephen Austin The Father Of Texas 2/14/17 Period 1 Liam Clark Stephen Austin was the first person to create a American colony in the Tejas province of Mexico. Stephen Austin was born in south western Virginia and when he was five his family moved to Missouri. He attended schooling at Yale college for four year’s he later returned to Missouri where he became a storekeeper, manager of the family lead mining company, and a failed bank director. In 1820 the governor of Arkansas appointed him as a…