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LONE STAR REBELLION

LONE STAR REBELLION. AP U.S 1. Greedy Americans. Eager for land, Americans wanted Texas Spanish wanted to populate area, but Mexicans had won their independence In 1823 a large chunk of land goes to Stephen Austin He would bring into Texas 300 American families

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LONE STAR REBELLION

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  1. LONE STAR REBELLION AP U.S 1

  2. Greedy Americans Eager for land, Americans wanted Texas Spanish wanted to populate area, but Mexicans had won their independence In 1823 a large chunk of land goes to Stephen Austin He would bring into Texas 300 American families They would be Roman Catholic and become Mexicanized

  3. Stephen Austin • 2 stipulations were ignored • 30,000 by 1835 • Most were law abiding, God-fearing people, but no all were • Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie, Sam Houston

  4. Tough Pioneers These people were not easy to push around Friction rapidly increased between Texans and Mexicans over issues like slavery, immigration, local rights Mexico emancipated its slaves in 1830 Texans wanted to keep their slaves

  5. Seeds of Rebellion When Stephen Austin went to Mexico City in 1833 to negotiate differences the dictator Santa Anna put him in jail for 8 months In 1835 he wiped out all local rights and started to raise an army to suppress the Texans 1836 Texas declares independence, Long Star flag and name Sam Houston commander in chief Santa Anna had about 6,000 men and he sent them in

  6. Battle of the Alamo Trapped about 200 Texans at Alamo in San Antonio Killed every man after 13 days trying Colonel W.B. Travis: “I shall never surrender not retreat… Victory or Death” Slain heroes like Bowie and Crockett became legendary after their death Scores of vengeful Americans seized their rifles and rushed to aid of relatives, friends and compatriots

  7. Bowie Knife

  8. Texas Revolution

  9. Caught like a coward When finally confronted and caught, Santa Anna was found cowering in tall grass near the battlefield, confronted with bowie knives he quickly signed 2 treaties He agreed to withdraw Mexican troops and recognize Rio Grande as southwestern boundary of Texas After he was released, he said the agreement was illegal

  10. What to do now U.S? Events put U.S gov. in a sticky situation Texas wanted to join the Union, but issue of slavery halted proceedings Antislavery crusaders in North were opposing annexation, didn’t want to add another slave state Another Missouri Compromise? How to deal with this issue…

  11. Texican culture The “Old Three Hundred” were the original settlers in Texas Mostly Scots- Irish southerners from the trans-Appalachian frontier they were cultured people All but 4 were literate Wide ranging horse patrols organized to attack Indian camps became the Texas Rangers

  12. Clashes in culture Texas lies along the border where Hispanic and Anglo-American cultures meet, mingle and clash The Texas Revolution was partly a contest of those two cultures Mainly though a contest on philosophy of government, liberal frontier ideals of freedom against conservative concept of centralized “control”

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