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Spanish Settlement
St. Augustine 1565California 1769
Spanish empire claimed half the worldSpanish officials did what they could to isolate
Spain’s North American colonies from their neighbors to the north
Mexico gains independence 1820
Colonization of Texas
• Stephen F . Austin 1822 granted large tracts of land (had to agree to become a Mexican citizen and Roman Catholic)
• 1835 28,000 people pour into Texas many illegally (Texas Fever)
• Wanted American style services and a faster Justice system
Real Estate Advertisement
• Use words and visuals that encourages people to move to Texas in 1821.
• Include information about the colony’s geography and economic opportunities for settlers.
• Put this ad in your notebook.
General Antonio Lopez De Santa Anna
• Seized control in 1835 (dictator)
• Stephen Austin went to Mexico City to press for Texas Statehood.
• Santa Anna sent an Army to Texas to take control of the misbehaving Americans. (General Martin Perfecto de Co’s)
Fall of the Alamo
• Alamo March 1836 Mexican victory
Santa Anna (If you execute your enemies it saves you the trouble of forgiving them )
William Travis ( I shall never retreat or surrender)
Sam Houston (Commander and Chief of Texas forces)
Travis Letter
• At the Alamo in San Antonio, then called Bejar, 150 Texas rebels led by William Barret Travis made their stand against Santa Anna's vastly superior Mexican army. On the second day of the siege, February 24, 1836, Travis called for reinforcements with this heroic message:
• I shall never surrender or retreat. Then, I call on you in the name of Liberty, of patriotism, and everything dear to the American character, to come to our aid with all dispatch. ...VICTORY OR DEATH.
End of Texas Independence
• Next weeks Santa Anna’s Army chased Houston’s Army all over eastern Texas
• On April 21 1836 Houston Caught Santa Anna’s Army napping near the San Jacinto River.
• “Remember the Alamo”
Mexican American WarMay 13 1846- February 2, 1848
• James Polk Manifest Destiny President
• Wanted California and Texas
• Annexed Texas (1845) and at the same time sent diplomats to purchase California
• Built fort in disputed area in
Texas (April 1846)
Treaty of Gaudalupe-HildalgoFebruary 2, 1848
• Mexico gives up Texas and Rio Grande
• Mexico gave up New Mexico and California
• US Pays Mexico $15 Million in cash and payoff Mexican debt worth $3 million