Essay On The Texas Revolution

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Joey DAmbrosio

World Geography

Mr. Paxton

November 30, 2016


Texas Revolution
The Texas Revolution began one April 6, 1830 when American colonists were banned from Mexico. There were 3,500 Americans living there at the time and they all had to leave. On 1833 The Mexican government denied to accept the Texas Constitution. They were unhappy with American Constitution because they did not want to follow it. On October 2nd 1835 the first shot was fired which started the war. Texans did not let this scare them and fired on them after this happened. Seven days after that Texas won the Battle of Goliad, which pushed Mexico’s troops back. They also won the Battle of Concepcion they were outnumbered five to one but the Mexican army was never …show more content…

The killings of their fallen troops made Texas outraged and made everyone in Texas rally for those troops.
On April 21, 1836 they won the Battle of San Jacinto to declare their independence from Mexico. Led by Sam Houston they defeated the Mexican army and finally gained independence from Mexico. Sam Houston was a big impact on the troops in that battle because he made them think of why they were fighting and what they wanted from this fight.
The Treaties were signed which officially gave Texas its independence from Mexico. Santa Anna signed which ended the revolution. But the Mexican government stated that he has he right to not sign these and that he does not have to follow these if he does not want to.
Sam Houston is named president of Texas on October 22, 1836. He also became the third president of Texas. Later he also became the governor of Texas when they became a part of the United States of America.
December 29, 1845 was the day Texas became a part of the U.S.A. making it the 28th state of this new country. It was the only state that was once its own nation before they became apart of the U.S.A. Texas is one of the biggest states in the United States …show more content…

After the U.S. defeated Mexico they realized that Texas is free and that they shouldn't fight them anymore.


These are some facts on Santa Anna. Santa Anna the leader of the Mexican Army was the head of eleven different governments on different occasions. He called himself “Napoleon of the West” because he thought he had been such a big impact on the governments. He had a funeral for his amputated leg and buried in Mexico City. His leg was also a trophy of one of the battles in the war. He showed the U.S. what chewing gum was.
In all this explains everything about the Texas Revolution and everything that happened during this time period. The Texas Revolution was a long period of time with many wars with Mexico over land. Texas revolted against Mexico because they did not agree with their government. Texas had major wins and losses with a lot of soldiers and generals. The Alamo was a major event during this time and now a huge tourist attraction now a day. This was a big event back then and it had a huge impact on us today. As you can tell the Texas Revolution has impacted us a lot

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