Texas Independence Causes
The Causes of the Texas War of Independence
A long time ago, Texas was part of Mexico. However, the United States wanted to extend areas westward to the Pacific Ocean and expanded slavery in the Southern region, so they brought slavery to Texas. Many American settlers, Tejanos, and Mexicans who lived in Texas did not like the law, which was made by Santa Anna, decided to fight for independence. The declaration of the war depended on three main causes of the Texas War of Independence from Mexico were area territorial expansion, slavery issues, and cultural differences.
To commence with one of the most important reasons for Mexico's loss of Texas was the area extension of the United States. According to Sectional Conflict, Texas declared the …show more content…
According to Causes of the Texas Revolution, after winning independence from Spain, the Mexican central government encouraged Americans came to settle in the large region in Texas. They were not only given land for living, granted fertile soil for farming, but they also supported these people to learn Spanish and converted their religions from South Baptists and Methodist to Roman Catholicism because the purpose of Mexico government wanted to change Anglos culture. Basically, Mexicans and others Latinos were controlled under the Napoleonic Code – “Latino control” while Anglo settlers emigrated from the United States were operated by a judicial system based on English law. Obviously, these Anglo settlers had never really wanted to become a Mexican citizen. They even agreed to take the promise to get the good benefit from Mexico government invitation. They found that it was difficult to perform after arriving in the dream region of Texas. Therefore, they decided to keep their own language, cultural, and ways to the same with people of the United States than with Mexico. According to Patrick J. Buchanan reports in The Death of the West: How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperial Our Country and Civilization, Buchanan indicates five-point …show more content…
(1) The number are greater than those of past migrations and they are mostly from one country and concentrated in specific areas; (2) Mexicans come not only from another culture, “but millions are of another race” (real Indian); (3) Millions are here illegally and have already broken the law; (4) Unlike past immigrants who were separated by the seas from their homelands, Mexicans enjoy the proximity of their homeland and feel no need to learn English; and (5) current Mexican immigrates are different from past immigrants because they come with the idea of racial rights and ethnic entitlements, an attitude “encouraged by cultural elites who denigrate the melting pot and preach the glories of
A long time ago, Texas was part of Mexico. However, the United States wanted to extend areas westward to the Pacific Ocean and expanded slavery in the Southern region, so they brought slavery to Texas. Many American settlers, Tejanos, and Mexicans who lived in Texas did not like the law, which was made by Santa Anna, decided to fight for independence. The declaration of the war depended on three main causes of the Texas War of Independence from Mexico were area territorial expansion, slavery issues, and cultural differences.
To commence with one of the most important reasons for Mexico's loss of Texas was the area extension of the United States. According to Sectional Conflict, Texas declared the …show more content…
According to Causes of the Texas Revolution, after winning independence from Spain, the Mexican central government encouraged Americans came to settle in the large region in Texas. They were not only given land for living, granted fertile soil for farming, but they also supported these people to learn Spanish and converted their religions from South Baptists and Methodist to Roman Catholicism because the purpose of Mexico government wanted to change Anglos culture. Basically, Mexicans and others Latinos were controlled under the Napoleonic Code – “Latino control” while Anglo settlers emigrated from the United States were operated by a judicial system based on English law. Obviously, these Anglo settlers had never really wanted to become a Mexican citizen. They even agreed to take the promise to get the good benefit from Mexico government invitation. They found that it was difficult to perform after arriving in the dream region of Texas. Therefore, they decided to keep their own language, cultural, and ways to the same with people of the United States than with Mexico. According to Patrick J. Buchanan reports in The Death of the West: How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperial Our Country and Civilization, Buchanan indicates five-point …show more content…
(1) The number are greater than those of past migrations and they are mostly from one country and concentrated in specific areas; (2) Mexicans come not only from another culture, “but millions are of another race” (real Indian); (3) Millions are here illegally and have already broken the law; (4) Unlike past immigrants who were separated by the seas from their homelands, Mexicans enjoy the proximity of their homeland and feel no need to learn English; and (5) current Mexican immigrates are different from past immigrants because they come with the idea of racial rights and ethnic entitlements, an attitude “encouraged by cultural elites who denigrate the melting pot and preach the glories of