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My family and I have followed Stephen Austin to settle in Texas, along with 296 other families. I am excited to receive lots of land to grow crops on and support my family, but the journey will be long. If we all move to Texas, won't we outnumber the Mexicans? I could see this situation either benefiting both our parties or turning to the worse possibility.

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"Lone Star Republic"

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The Battle of the Alamo

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Texas Becomes Mexican American 1821-1836

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Texas Becomes Mexican American 1821-1836

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Originally home to Pueblo Native Americans and Plains, Texas is a land filled with rich soil and grassy plains. Now that westward expansion is growing, many people want to claim lands in Texas with only a population 4,000 Mexicans. Texas even offered huge tracts of land, and it seems only Americans were lured in. Since Mexico gained independence from Spain they changed their system, and Stephen Austin got permission after a year. This was the beginning to a life in Texas filled with hardships and disagreements with Mexicans, and led to the independence of being one country for nearly 10 years, the Lone Star Republic. It was not an easy decision to let Texas into the United States because it would break the equal number of slave states and free states. This event is significant because the diverse culture of Texas has developed from the contributors of many different groups.

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Manifest destiny is the suggestion that expansion was not only good but bound to happen-even if it meant pushing Mexicans and Native Americans out of the way. It became government policy in the 1800s.

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I have decided to carry on my father, Moses Austin's, goal to colonize for Americans in Spanish Texas. "He called me to his bedside,...he begged me to take his place...to go on...in the same way he would have done." The Mexican government have given consent if Americans agree to become citizens and members of the Roman Catholic church. I think this will make my father proud.

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Written by Amanda Lo