USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Anglo-Americans were drawn by inexpensive land and believed annexation of Texas to the United States was likely and would improve the market for the land. Some settlers were fleeing debts and sought refuge in the Mexican colony, where they were safe from American creditors.

Detailed explanation-2: -In order to build a tax base and encourage settlement in the new Republic of Texas, the government instituted a liberal policy of distributing the public domain to incoming settlers.

Detailed explanation-3: -The newly passed Law of April 6, 1830, prohibited the entrance of Anglo-Americans into Texas unless they had a passport to Austin’s or DeWitt’s colony.

Detailed explanation-4: -Mexicans were strongly against slavery, but realistic politicians ignored the system because they wanted the Anglos to produce cotton in Texas. National and state laws banned the African slave trade but allowed Anglo-Americans to bring their family slaves with them to Texas.

Detailed explanation-5: -Anglo-American colonization in Mexican Texas took place between 1821 and 1835. Initially Spain opened Texas to Anglo-Americans in 1820, less than one year before Mexico achieved its independence.