Introduction
The Texas Revolution started in October 1835 with Gonzales’s battle and ended on April 21, 1836, with San Jacinto’s battle. Rogers states, “During the early 1800s, Mexico invited Americans to settle in Texas” (4). Mexico had hope that the settlers would develop the northern part of Mexico. Life in America was so hard that many Americans moved with their slaves to Texas. Even though there were some of the Mexican- born settlers that moved to Texas, a majority of the settlers were from America. There were too many Americans in Texas that it worried the Mexican leaders. ...
