Tejanos And The Texas Revolution

The Texas Revolution, which was instigated by the people of Texas around the 1830’s, had a lot of debates and conflict with the Mexican government and its military revolt was being made in Texas as it was under Mexican government due to Tejanos wanting independence away from Mexico. A lot of things were being done in Texas by settlers and people who felt that they could do a lot of things without having the Mexican government find out. At the time Anglo Americans for one had many slaves that they would own. Those slaves would do hard working labor and under the Mexican laws, slavery was banned, and since Texas was a part of Mexico, a lot of Anglos that were from the United States at the time had a problem with it. Texans were focused on their

There were Tejanos that were willing to risk it all and fight the Mexican army because of their own beliefs that they could make it without. Slavery existed in Texas throughout the whole 1800’s which was something the Anglo Americans had started under the Mexican government. There was a lot of slaves in Texas that were a lot of help to the Anglo Americans, but the Mexican government still did not like this. Even after its laws were mandated by the government, the people in Texas still decided to go against it and fight back as they felt that having slaves brought their economy up with all the free labor, they’d do for them. The president of Mexico at that time was Vicente Guerrero. He had passed a law that abolished slavery from all Mexico including Texas since it was a part of them at that time. A lot of Texans did not take that law very lightly and decided to go against its orders. At that time, Santa Anna was the General of the Mexican army to which made him establish dictatorship all over Mexican

Slavery is one of the top reasons as they felt like they didn’t need Mexico anymore. Throughout the time there was many battles fought against each other in many cities in Texas. Many battles were won by Mexico since their army was bigger than what Texas had at the time. The Texans felt that they could be their own state since they had all the necessities to survive their own economy and felt that with all the slave they had they could do a lot more. A lot of Texans and people from the United States wanted to help out Texas get its independence from Mexico which is what caused battles like in the Alamo. In that battle there was maybe a couple of hundreds of soldiers against thousands of Mexican soldiers with Santa anna leading it. At its time, there was a siege between both side and in the end, the battle was issued which Santa Anna getting the victory due to his big army. A lot of Texans saw this as others fought for the revolution and its independence from Mexico. This battle of the Alamo led to the Battle of San Jacinto. That battle is what lead to the independence of Texas as well and lasted close to a day since it was a surprise attack against the Mexican