why did the battle of the alamo start?

Answer 1

I think it was part of the mexican-american war... when texas wanted to be part of the USA, and Mexico didn't want it to be.

Answer 2

The Battle at the Alamo was set up as the Texans, led by Sam Houston, wanted independence from Mexico. The Alamo was a 12 day seige and was won by the Texans which ultimately led to the Battle of San Jacinto.

Answer 3

The battle took place at a turning point in the Texas Revolution, which had begun with the October 1835 Consultation whose delegates narrowly approved a call for rights under the Mexican Constitution of 1824. By the time of the battle, however, sympathy for declaring a Republic of Texas had grown. The delegates from the Alamo to the Constitutional Convention were both instructed to vote for independence.

Answer 4

It started at Gonzales and war spread quickly. The Alamo was just a continuation of another battle near Goliad.

Texicans {Texas & Mexicans-merged} were slaughtered there as well. These are native Texan both mexican and angelo orgin and people whom lived inTexas prior to statehood or Being a free country. [did you know Texas once was its own country?- the only state in the USA that can raise its flag over the stars and stripes]

It was much more brutal than the Alamo, woman and children died in horrid ways. So Goliad was the real slaugher.

The famous men that died at the Alamo (thou brave) had an option to leave and never took it. It was a political move and they never "honestly" believe that would be killed, taken as prisonars and traded back and create "tension" between Mexico and the USA. That didn't happen, those famous folks killed were US citizens so the "press" even back then had a hey day with Davy Crockett (state rep of Tennessee) being killed in Texas by Mexico. The US President eventally extendend "stateship", but only after it was understood that Texas was not really interested in the US policies about their civil war.

The Mexican army was just to poor at that point to "take care of them" so killing them was the best solution. The hired "foregin guns" were not getting paid, since most of the Texas garrisons were not full of money the were old "missions". So they were ready to call it quits.

Never knowing that the "celebetries" they killed at the Alamo would bring out the Goliad/ Syguine blood baths and would modivate the rest of Texicans and Texans to fight back more.
They wanted revenge and Santa Anna dead now.

The battle of San Jacinto was the lead by Sam Houston and they literally wounded Santa Anna while taking a "little break" with a paid woman "Yellow Rose" as she was called. The war was over. Sam Houston was fatally shot, died of wounds later and never witness the "freedom" of his victory.

Answer 5

In 1819 The United States suffered from an economical depression called the Panic of 1819. The depression left many people unemployed, especially in the western part of the United States. Over 300 families followed a man named Stephen Austin into Texas to form a new colony. This land, a total of 200,000 acres, had been granted by the Mexican government to Stephen Austin’s father Moses Austin in 1821. Mexico believed that the colony would become prosperous and would promote Mexicans to move north to the area which was otherwise sparse of Mexican inhabitants. The American settlers were however required to convert to Catholicism, become Mexican citizens and obey Mexican laws. But by 1827 U.S. citizens outnumbered Mexicans by more then 2:1.
Another major issue that was causing tension between the settlers and the Mexican government was slavery. In 1829 Mexico passed a law against slavery which the settlers ignored.
Over the next several years, tensions continued to arise. Mexican settlers in Texas resented the U.S. citizens for disrespecting their laws and faith, and the U.S. citizens believed that the Mexicans were inferior to them. Considering that the Texas colony was over 800 miles from Mexico’s central government, it was difficult for Mexico to enforce the laws of which they had invoked.
In 1835 a militia was formed by the American settlers of Texas. Intermittent fighting occurred between the Americans and the Mexicans over the next year. Then on March 2nd 1836, American settlers declared Texas their nation, independent from Mexico.
Mexico, unwilling to recognize the loss of the Texas territory to the settlers, sent General Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana and a large army into Texas. There, Mexico was successful in winning the battle at the Alamo, killing about 200 Americans. This battle was a huge blow to the new republic and its army. A delegation was sent to Washington D.C. to request to join the Union. However, President Andrew Jackson denied the request. Even though he was in favor of annexation, he felt that adding another large slave state to the union would disrupt the balance of slave and non-slave states in the Union.

Answer 6

We are going over this in history, and I don't like the subject. It has to do with this guy called Santa Anna. He was the owner of Texas, and Texas wanted independence. At first he was all for it, but then he changed his mind. Stephen F. Austin went to meet with him, and then he was arrested and accused of treason. That's all I remember right now. When I remember more, I'll email it to you. Hope I helped!

Answer 7

http://hotx.com/alamo/background.html

Answer 8

The Battle of the Alamo was a 19th-century battle between the Republic of Mexico and the rebel Texian forces, including Tejanos, during the latter fight for independence — the Texas Revolution. It took place at the Alamo mission in San Antonio, Texas (then known as "San Antonio de Béxar") in February and March of 1836. The 13-day siege ended on March 6 with the capture of the mission and the death of nearly all the Texian defenders, except for a few slaves, women and children. Despite the loss, the 13-day holdout stalled Mexican forces' progress and allowed Sam Houston to gather troops and supplies for his later successful battle at San Jacinto[citation needed]. The Texian revolutionaries went on to win the war.

The battle took place at a turning point in the Texas Revolution, which had begun with the October 1835 Consultation whose delegates narrowly approved a call for rights under the Mexican Constitution of 1824. By the time of the battle, however, sympathy for declaring a Republic of Texas had grown. The delegates from the Alamo to the Constitutional Convention were both instructed to vote for independence.

Prelude to battle
Texas was part of the Spanish colony of New Spain. After Mexican independence in 1821, Texas became part of Mexico and in 1824 became the northern section of Coahuila y Tejas. On 3rd January 1823, Stephen F. Austin began a colony of 300 American families along the Brazos River in present-day Fort Bend County and Brazoria County, centered primarily in the area of what is now Sugar Land.

In 1835, Mexican President and General Antonio López de Santa Anna Pérez de Lebrón, abolished the Constitution of 1824 and proclaimed a new constitution that reduced the power of many of the provincial governments and increased the power of the Presidency. Since the end of hostilities with Spain ten years before, the Mexican government, and Santa Anna in particular, had been eager to reassert its control over the entire country and control of Texas was seen as particularly important as Santa Anna rightly perceived the province to be vulnerable to America's westward expansion.

Hostilities in Texas began with the Battle of Gonzales on October 1, 1835 after which the Texian rebels quickly captured Mexican positions at La Bahía and San Antonio.

With the surrender of General Martín Perfecto de Cos and his garrison at San Antonio, there was no longer a Mexican military presence in Texas. Santa Anna decided to launch an offensive with the aim of putting down the rebellion. Minister of War José María Tornel and Maj. Gen. Vicente Filisola (1789–1850) proposed a seaborne attack to Santa Anna, which would have been easier on the troops and had been a proven means of expeditions into Texas since 1814. Santa Anna refused on the basis that this plan would take too long and the rebels in Texas might receive aid from the United States.

Santa Anna assembled an estimated force of 6,100 soldiers and 20 cannons at San Luis Potosí in early 1836, and moved through Saltillo, Coahuila, towards Texas. His army marched across the Rio Grande through inclement weather, including snowstorms, to suppress the rebellion. San Antonio de Béxar was one of his intermediate objectives; his ultimate objective was to capture the Texas government and restore the rule of the central or "Centralist" Mexican government over a rebellious state. He had earlier suppressed the rebellion in the state of Zacatecas in 1835.

Santa Anna and his army arrived in San Antonio de Béxar on February 23. It was a mixed force of regular infantry and cavalry units as well as activo reserve infantry battalions. They were equipped with the British Baker and the out-dated, short range but effective and deadly British Tower Musket, Mark III, or "Brown Bess" musket. The average Mexican soldier stood 5 ft 1 in (1.55 m), and many were recent conscripts with no previous combat experience. Although they were well-drilled, the Mexican army discouraged individual marksmanship. The initial forces were equipped with four 7 in (178 mm) howitzers, seven 4-pound (1.8 kg), four 6-pound (2.7 kg), four 8-pound (3.6 kg) and two 12-pound (5 kg) cannons.

Several of the Mexican officers were foreign mercenary veterans, including Vicente Filisola (Italy) and Antonio Gaona (Cuba), and General Santa Anna was a veteran of the Mexican War of Independence.

Answer 9

Mexico felt the americans were squatters.

Answer 10

All the info you need...>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_alamo