19 Battle of San Jacinto

• ​A The war ended as quickly as it had begun at the Battle of San Jacinto On April 21st 1836
• B Sam Houston and his army managed to trap and surround the Mexican army led by Santa Anna while they were resting and hiding on an island like area of land
  

• C Austin gets tired of waiting and writes a letter back to Texas in which he instructs them to prepare to create their own independent Mexican state

14 The Grass Fight

• ​A Texans attacked a Mexican army mule train that they suspected was carrying silver to pay soldiers
• ​B Texans swarmed the Mexican soldiers and captured all the mules
  
• C They dug in to the mules pouches to collect their reward but all the mules were carrying was grass to feed the horses of the Mexican army
  

• ​H On May 14 1836 Santa Anna signs the Treaty of Velasco
  
• I The treaty required Mexico to recognize Texas Independence and withdraw south of the Rio Grande 

• ​​B Some settlers wanted to declare independence while others wanted to fight Santa Anna and support the Constitution of 1824
  
• ​C They vote against Independence
  

• ​​I The Mexicans attacked the Alamo at the break of dawn on March the 6th 1836
• J Within 90 minutes the Alamo defenders were slaughtered
  
• K Santa Anna sent the surviving women and children out of the Alamo with the message "Santa Anna is coming"
• ​L The bodies of the Alamo defenders were piled up and burnt
  

• E Mexican officials intercept the Letter Austin wrote home to Texas 
• F They flip out, consider it treason and have Austin arrested
  
• G Austin was held in prison for over a year and never charged 
  

• ​​D Santa Anna surrounds the Alamo with anywhere from 2-6 thousand soldiers and lays siege to the Texans for 13 days
• E Santa Anna flew a red flag at the Alamo indicating that no mercy would be given, he was there for blood
  

15 The Consultation of 1835

• ​A Representative from across Texas met at Washington on the Brazos for a meeting known as the Consultation (First one) in November 1835

• ​C Texans supported Santa Anna's rise to power because he pledged to support the Constitution of 1824
  
• ​D When he became the leader of Mexico he too became a centralist dictator
  

• C They were led by Stephen Austin
  ​D The delegates pledged their support to the true Mexican government under the Constitution of 1824
  

13 Army of the People

• ​A Stephen F Austin, angry about being imprisoned, had given up on remaining loyal to the current Mexican Government
• ​B He built an army and attacked San Antonio and won
  
• C Sam Houston also gathered up forces and began training men to be soldiers and fight against Santa Anna
  

• C Santa Anna ordered that the men be executed and not held as prisoners
• D Urrea's men marched the Texans out of their prison in Goliad Texas and gunned them all down then piled up their bodies and burned them
  
• E Most battles of the Texas Revolution were fought in the Coastal Plains 
  

• ​C This angered the Texans who would have to travel far out of the way to get to Anahuac
• ​D Most Texans began ignoring George Fisher and the Taxes
  

• ​​F During that time the Mexican army suffered over 800 casualties and the remaining half of their army was taken prisoner
  ​G Santa Ann was forced to surrender to Sam Houston after he was captured trying to escape dressed as a common soldier

7 Anahuac

• ​A George Fisher was a Mexican citizen and the governments customs agent for Galveston Bay
• B Fisher required all ships traveling through Galveston Bay to sail to his office in Anahuac to pay their taxes and get their paperwork signed
  

5 Law of April 6th 1830

• ​A Based on the findings and recommendations of the Mier y Teran Report Mexico stops all immigration from the United States to Texas
• B Declared that slaves could no longer be brought to Texas
  
• ​C The law also placed taxes on goods imported from the U.S.
  

16 Battle of the Alamo

• ​A Santa Anna marches his army quickly toward San Antonio seeking revenge for Stephen Austin's victory
• B Along the way he enlists as many men as he can into his army
  
• C Santa Anna arrives at the Alamo sooner than the Texans expected and before they could get reinforcements
  

• ​​F Inside the Alamo less than 200 Texans and frontiersmen from Tennessee were led by William Travis, Jim Bowie, and Davy Crockett

• ​C Bradburn confiscated slaves that belonged to William Logan
  
• D When Logan and his lawyers tried to trick Bradburn into releasing the slaves, Bradburn arrested the lawyers (one of them as William Barrett Travis)
  
• E ​This triggered a protest and a gathering of angry Texans (not peaceful)
• ​F At Turtle Bayou the Texans wrote a resolution to remain loyal to the Mexican government and Santa Anna under the Constitution of 1824
  

11 Stephen Austin goes to Mexico City

• ​A 1833 Austin travels to Mexico City to deliver The Resolutions written at San Felipe
• B Due to political unrest in Mexico City it takes a month for Austin to get a meeting with someone in charge​

• C The Texans swarmed the Mexican army while they napped
• D Chaos spread through the Mexican camp as soldiers tried to get to their weapons or escape the slaughter
  
• E The battle only last about 15 minutes​​

2 Hayden Edwards

• ​A 1825 Hayden Edwards gets empresario grant in East Texas
• ​B When he arrived he found Native American settlers in the area
  
• C He demanded they produce a deed proving they owned the land
  

1 American Settlers

• ​A Most Anglo-American settlers favored States' Rights
• ​B Many Mexican leaders did not like states having too much power and they were not pleased with the States' Rights given in the Constitution of 1824
  
• ​C These differences of opinion will lead to the Texas Revolution
  

17 Texas Declaration of Independence

• ​A The Consultation met again in 1836 and declared independence on the 2nd of March, during the siege of the Alamo
• B The Texas Declaration of Independence was written by George Childress and modeled after the U.S. Declaration of Independence
  

12 Battle of Gonzales

• ​A Citizens of Gonzales Texas had been given a Cannon to defend themselves against the Natives
• B Mexico decided it no longer trusted the Texans with the cannon so they sent soldiers to take it back
  
• C Texans refused to give the cannon back and attacked the Mexican soldiers with the cannon when they arrived
  
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• ​D The Texans flew a flag on which they painted a cannon and the words "Come and Take It"
  E The Battle of Gonzales proved to Texans that the Mexican Army could be defeated and Independence achieved
  

6 Santa Anna

• ​A Settlers in Texas, both Anglo and Tejano were upset that the Constitution of 1824 was being ignored
• B Antonio de Padua María Severino López de Santa Anna y Pérez de Lebrón or "Santa Anna" rose to power as an opponent of the Centralist government and a supporter of States Rights
  

• ​​G William Travis sent out a letter from the Alamo, carried by Juan Seguin
• H The Letter called for help and vowed to never surrender
  

​9 Velasco

• ​A Texan John Austin had left Anahuac to fetch a canon and bring it to Turtle Bayou 
  
• B On his way back with the cannon his ship was stopped by Mexican forces at Velasco.  ​

• E The Texans wanted to restore immigration from the United States
  
• F They were upset about the high taxes on U.S. imports
  
• G The Texans also wanted to be their own independent Mexican state and not be attached to Coahuila
  

18 Fannin, Colteo, and Goliad

• ​A Texan Colonel James Fannin and 300 soldiers were trying to reach the Alamo when they were defeated by Mexican forces led by General Urrea
• B Fannin was forced to surrender at the Battle of Coleto because they were in the middle of a field when Urrea's army surrounded the Texans
  

8 Turtle Bayou

• ​AAnother Mexican official began to anger Texans
• ​B Mexican Colonel John Davis Bradburn began enforcing immigration laws that outlawed bringing slaves in to Texas
  

• D When they could not prove ownership he tried to force them out of their homes and off their land
• ​E Stephen Austin sends Edwards a letter telling him to knock it off
  
• F Austin wanted to remain loyal to Mexico under the Constitution of 1824 
  

• C When the Mexican commander refused to let Austin pass fighting broke out.  
  D Ten Texans and five Mexicans were killed in the battle before the Mexicans ran out of ammunition and surrendered.
  

10 San Felipe Resolutions

• ​A These early conflicts prompted Texans to hold a meeting
• ​B 56 delegates met in San Felipe 1832-1833​

3 Fredonian Rebellion

• ​A In 1826 near Nacogdoches
• B American settlers declared themselves the independent republic of Fredonia
  
• ​C The Mexican Government and Stephen Austin sent troops to stop the Fredonian Rebellion
  
• ​D The rebels gave up with out a fight and their leaders were executed or escaped
  

Unrest and Revolt

• D Santa Anna was now in charge, agreed to allow immigration from the United States and to reduce taxes on U.S. imports but denied making Texas it's own state
  

4 Mier y Teran

• ​A In 1828 the Mexican Government sent General Manuel Mier y Teran to investigate the situation in Texas
• ​B His report found that Americans outnumbered Mexican settlers 10 to 1
  
• ​C He also noted that the influence of America over the area was growing and Mexico was losing control of Texas