After he was released from prison in July 1835, Stephen Austin recognized that further negotiation with the Mexican government was pointless and urged Texans to

The constitution drafted by Texans during their War for Independence drew heavily on the U.S. Constitution and specifically protected

During Texas’s War for Independence, devastating military losses at the Alamo and Goliad served to

Presidential candidate James K. Polk’s promise to annex Texas and the Oregon Territory and buy California appealed to Northerners and Southerners because it

In the Treaty of Fort Laramie, the United States promised eight Native American groups that specific territories of the Great Plains would belong to them as long as they

During the decades after Mexico won its independence from Spain, the young republic struggled to establish a stable national government and

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Although the newly independent Republic of Texas supported it, President Andrew Jackson made no move toward annexation because he did not want to

Due to continuing political instability in Mexico City, at the start of Texas’s War of Independence the Mexican army

Who exactly won the Mexican-American War?

Frequent attacks by Native American warriors posed a major threat to wagon trains traveling west.

Stephen Austin was an empresario, a person given a large grant of land in what is now Texas in exchange for a promise to fill the land with settlers and govern it.

In 1836 Texas declared its independence from the United States.

In 1834 President Antonio López de Santa Anna declared himself dictator of Mexico.

The Texans won their first victory against the Mexican army in 1835 at an abandoned mission called the Alamo.

By the mid-1830s, Stephen Austin had persuaded 1,500 American families to immigrate to California.

Native Americans on the Great Plains relied on agriculture for food, shelter, clothing, tools, and countless other necessities.

In November 1845 President Polk sent John Slidell as a special envoy to Mexico City, where he was welcomed by Mexico’s new president, José Joaquín Herrera.

The group of people known as Dons were considered to be at the top of the social classes in California during the 1830's.

Most historians would consider President James Polk to be an expansionist when it came to America's land.

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