Essays on Texas Revolution

There are various similarities and differences in the lead-up to the Texas and American Revolution. From the outset it is important to note that prior to the Revolutions, Texas and America were colonies. Accordingly, the two revolutions were caused by the need to be free from external interference in the running of the affairs of the respective State and country. The Texas Revolution was motivated by the need for the State to free itself from the Spanish colonial rule and later from the control of its affairs by the Mexican government which considered Texas to be part of its ...

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. ...

Texas, unlike the other states, is part of the United States by treaty instead of territorial incorporation. Before it became a state, it first belonged to Spain then it became part of Independent Mexico in 1824. The Spanish authorities let the Americans acquire land in the region from 1821 with terms that included, them converting into Catholic and handling all their affairs in Spanish (Barr, 1990). The Texas revolution, also the Texas war for Independence, was an outcome of some serial events that started out long before the firing of the first shots in Gonzales on October 2, 1835 and ...