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Unit 8 – 16.1 & 16.2
 Northern Frontier
 California, New Mexico
and Texas.
 Strong relationship between
Pueblo Indians and Spainish
settlers.
 Influenced their living
habits. (Building Structures
and Foods)
 Missions: Religious outpost
established by the government
of Spain to pacify the natives
and attempt to convert them
to Christians.
 California missions protected
by military
 Farming and Ranching
 Weak mission system
because of distance
 Conflict with American
Indians … Problem?
 Tejonos: Spanish cattle-
ranchers in Texas
 Sept. 1810 - Poor Spaniards & American Indians revolt
 They hope that independence will improve living
conditions. (SOUND FAMILIAR?)
 1821 – Mexico wins independence!
 1824 : Constitution makes Mexico a republic
 Includes present day: Arizona, California, Nevada, New
Mexico, Texas, Utah.
 Many Tejanos were killed or chased away during the
war.
 Mexico worried that so few people could not protect
Texas.
 Mexico hired agents to bring people to Texas.
 Agents received free land.
 Stephen Austin:
 Agents who created a
colony on the lower
Colorado River.
 1834: 20,000 Americans
 Man=640 Acres, plus land
for women, children and slaves.
 MAJORITY OF PEOPLE LIVING IN MEXICO ARE
AMERICANS.
 NOT MEXICAN CITIZENS.
 LIVING UNDER MEXICAN LAW.
 BUT OFTEN IGNORED.
 Requirements to live in Texas:
 Become a Mexican citizen
 Obey Mexican laws
 Support the Roman Catholic Church
 Texans ignored requirements
 Mexico responded by raising tariffs on goods &
sending troops to Texas.
 1834: Santa Anna suspends Mexico’s constitution.
 Oct. 1835 – April 1836
 Nov. 1835 - A group of
Texans formed a
temporary gov’t with
goals:
 Defeat Santa Anna
 Restore Mexico’s
republic constitution
 Battle of the Alamo
 Texans surrounded and
out numbered by
Mexican soldiers.
 After 13 days of fighting
Mexican soldiers win.
 What effect would this
have on the people of
Texas?
 Texas delegates wrote a declaration of independence &
a constitution.
 Based on the U.S. Constitution,
but made slavery legal
 Santa Anna was defeated
at the Battle of San Jacinto.
 Defeated by Sam Houston
 Forced to sign the peace treaty!
TEXAS WINS!
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