1. Expansion in Texas Work Time: PS Docs: Start of Mexican War Homework:
GR 9.3 (12/13)

2. Lone Star Republic Mexico’s Independence from Spain (1821)
present-day TX sparse pop.
Mex gov’t encouraged Am settlers
1823, Stephen Austin led 300 Am families onto land grant from Mex.
- successful  made $
- buffer zone b/w Mex and Comanche tribe

3. Land for Americans w/ Strings Attached
Am settlers expected to become Mexican
immigrants from US forced to become Catholic
slavery outlawed
** didn’t happen  cultural war

4. Tensions Rise
1833, Austin goes to Mexico City to ease tension
Mex. dictator, Santa Anna, refused to negotiate
- Austin jailed (18 months)
- relations worsen
1835, war b/w Santa Anna's troops and Texan revolutionaries
March 2, 1836, reps. from TX formally declare independence

5. War for Independence
4 days later, Santa Anna siege on the Alamo mission
187 Texans crushed by Santa Anna's 5,000 man force
- deaths of commander William Travis, Jim Bowie, and Davy Crockett angered Americans
- Am rallying call–"Remember the Alamo!"
commander Sam Houston, defeated Santa Anna's forces
May 14, 1836, Santa Anna recognized Texan independence
Texans wanted to be annexed by US (made a state)
- Andrew Jackson refused (issue of slavery)

6. Texas Resurfaces
Dec 29, 1845: granted statehood
Mexico outraged  no chance at reacquiring
US/Mex. boundary dispute
- Mexico claimed southern border Nueces R., (Texan boundary while under Mex rule)
- US claimed border was Rio Grande River

7. Texas Annexation