USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -When Santa Anna dissolved the state legislature and brought all the power to himself, Texas found itself working under an illegal system of government. So, Texas rebelled along with several other Mexican states (Binkley 41). The Texans originally fought for the Constitution of 1824 but shortly turned to independence.

Detailed explanation-2: -THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT SAID THEY HAD TO FOLLOW CERTAIN RULES: BECOME MEXICAN CITIZENS. BECOME ROMAN CATHOLICS. THEY ALSO WERE UPSET WHEN MEXICO BANNED SLAVERY (ALTHOUGH AUSTIN WAS ULTIMATELY ABLE TO GET THE GOVERNMENT TO PERMIT IT IN TEXAS).

Detailed explanation-3: -The most immediate cause of the Texas Revolution was the refusal of many Texas, both Anglo and Mexican, to accept the governmental changes mandated by “Siete Leyes” which placed almost total power in the hands of the Mexican national government and Santa Anna.

Detailed explanation-4: -On December 19, 1836, the Texas Congress unilaterally set the boundaries of the republic. It declared the Rio Grande to be the southern boundary, even though Mexico had refused to recognize Texas independence. The eastern border with Louisiana presented problems.

Detailed explanation-5: -Texas Revolution, also called War of Texas Independence, war fought from October 1835 to April 1836 between Mexico and Texas colonists that resulted in Texas’s independence from Mexico and the founding of the Republic of Texas (1836–45).