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The Texas Revolutionary Experience: A Political and Social History 1835–1836. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press. ISBN 0-89096-497-1. Manchaca, Martha (2001). Recovering History, Constructing Race: The Indian, Black, and White Roots of Mexican Americans. The Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art ...
Tejanos, Texas residents of Mexican descent, were soon vastly outnumbered by Anglos. By 1834, an estimated 30,000 Anglos lived in Coahuila y Tejas, [6] compared to only 7,800 Tejanos. [7] By 1833, Texas was divided into three political divisions: the Department of Béxar, the Department of Nacogdoches, and the Department of the Brazos. [8]
Lack, Paul D. (1992), The Texas Revolutionary Experience: A Political and Social History 1835–1836, Texas A&M University Press, ISBN 0-89096-497-1; Fehrenbach, T. R. (2000), Lone Star: a history of Texas and the Texans, Da Capo Press, ISBN 978-0-306-80942-2; Republic of Texas Historical Resources; Republic of Texas from the Handbook of Texas ...
This is a timeline of the Texas Revolution, spanning the time from the earliest independence movements of the area of Texas, over the declaration of independence from Spain, up to the secession of the Republic of Texas from Mexico. The first shot of the Texas Revolution was fired at the Battle of Gonzales on October 2, 1835. This marked the ...
The leadership of both major U.S. political parties (the Democrats and the Whigs) opposed the introduction of Texas — a vast slave-holding region — into the volatile political climate of the pro- and anti-slavery sectional controversies in Congress. Moreover, they wished to avoid a war with Mexico, whose government had outlawed slavery and ...
Lack, Paul D. (1992), The Texas Revolutionary Experience: A Political and Social History 1835–1836, College Station: Texas A&M University Press, ISBN 978-0-89096-497-2; McComb, David G. The City in Texas: A History (University of Texas Press, 2015) 342 pp.
October 2 – Texas Revolution – Battle of Gonzales: Mexican soldiers attempt to disarm the people of Gonzales, Texas but encounter stiff resistance from a hastily assembled militia. November 21 – Clement Comer Clay is sworn in as the 8th governor of Alabama replacing John Gayle. [2] December 9 – The Army of the Republic of Texas captures ...
As the pendulum swung sharply towards centralism in 1835, several Mexican states revolted. [8] In June, a small group of settlers in Texas used the political unrest as an excuse to rebel against customs duties, in an incident known as the Anahuac Disturbances. [9] The federal government responded by sending more troops to Texas. [10]