Your Opinion on the 1836 Texan Independence?

Question

I have an essay about whether the Texans were justified on revolting against Mexico in 1836. However, the book does not go into detail about this issue, and my teacher has not gone over it. Could you please give me your opinion to this question so I can get a further understanding on both sides of the argument? Thank you so much.

Answer 1

Forget hoof hearted. He does not matter.

Answer 2

Moses and John Austin negotiated with the Mexican government so that Americans could settle in Texas. These settlers were granted land and the only condition was that they convert to Catholicism.
American settlers crossed over to Texas by the thousands, pretended to convert and a few years later, led the rebellion against Mexico, so that Texas would become another US state.
The war was not between Mexican Texans and Mexicans from Mexico. That's a myth and you can consult any source on the Austins plans. The war weas between American settlers and Mexicans. After Texas, the US proceeded to to invade and conquer half of Mexico in the Mexican-American war. What is the American Southwest today belonged to Mexico before the 1840's.
Many prominent Americans were against this, specially Ralph Waldo Emerson, who spent time in jail for "civil disobedience", as a protest against the invasion.

Answer 3

Clearly, in 1836 the Government in Mexico City had no way of controlling events in a far-off and thinly populated territory; and, given the absence of railroads, had no way either effectively to suppress a rebellion there.

Some things your book and teacher ought to consider, though:

-- Not all of the rebels were recent immigrants from the US. Not that many Mexicans lived there, but many of those who did were rebels.

-- It was probably more difficult for the central Mexican Government to control events in far-off provinces than it had been for the British in the 1770s, especially since there were extreme political problems among Mexicans.

-- Not all, but most of the US immigrants came from slave states, and wished to maintain the institution of slavery, outlawed by the Mexican Constitution of 1824.

Answer 4

ok, I haven't found one item in the first answer that was correct.

The americans that moved to texas were a minority in that state. Many people in texas at the time wanted to make texas a new state inside of texas, it was part of another state at the time. However, the minority was the loud part and once Santa Anna threatened moving his forces north, the minority became a majority for independence.

Were they JUSTIFIED is a personal opinion, not a historical fact. Were the Americans justified in rebellion against England in 1776? Not in the eyes of many Britons and certainly not in the eyes of their lawful king.

Likewise, whether or not Texan independence was justified or not, really depends on which side of the border you were on.

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Answer 5

The Aztec language is related to languages up into Utah. despite if that makes absolutely everyone descended from people who spoke it entitled to those lands, i don't understand. especially through fact the sought after concept of land possession, with deeds and checklist-protecting as all of us are conscious of it, has in simple terms been around through fact the Europeans got here to visit. some generations in the past, my ancestors lived on a farm that's now a public park. could i bypass to that city and demand the park be became over to me as area of my background? My super-super grandfather owned the land, my grandmother and my dad grew up there, shouldn't it is mine? My ancestors have been all immigrants and that they worked stressful to make money and purchase properties and bring up their households. there replaced into no welfare, no social secure practices, no baby amenities--they did all of it on their very own. They have been proud back to this u . s . and to develop their little ones to talk English and characteristic their descendants assimilated into the subculture. i'm not asserting that what replaced into achieved to the natives replaced into the wonderful element to do. all of us are conscious of it wasn't. yet gifting away land that persons worked stressful to make money to purchase, through fact of a incorrect achieved one hundred fifty years in the past or maybe 500 years in the past in simple terms isn't outstanding the two. there is have been given to be a extra acceptable way.

Answer 6

Many different countries and peoples have ruled the land within the current State of Texas. At the time of the Texas revolution from the country of Mexico creating the Republic of Texas, the people of Texas had many complaints of Mexican rule and felt of themselves as a client State in a near feudal relationship with Mexico. At the end of this posting is a copy of the Texas Declaration of Independence with their complaints. In this they were acting in a similar manner to the American revolution of 1776.

Texas joined the Union as a State to assist its protection from the country of Mexico and thereby maintaining their freedoms.

As with the other States of the Confederacy Texas seceded from the Union (a constitutionally legal act) because they felt (in part) that the federal government had been (and was continuing) to move away from the intent of the Founders of the United States. The subsequent invasion of Union Armies into the sovereign land of the Confederacy proved that belief as true.


The Unanimous Declaration of Independence made by the Delegates of the People of Texas in General Convention at the town of Washington on the 2nd day of March 1836.
When a government has ceased to protect the lives, liberty and property of the people, from whom its legitimate powers are derived, and for the advancement of whose happiness it was instituted, and so far from being a guarantee for the enjoyment of those inestimable and inalienable rights, becomes an instrument in the hands of evil rulers for their oppression.
When the Federal Republican Constitution of their country, which they have sworn to support, no longer has a substantial existence, and the whole nature of their government has been forcibly changed, without their consent, from a restricted federative republic, composed of sovereign states, to a consolidated central military despotism, in which every interest is disregarded but that of the army and the priesthood, both the eternal enemies of civil liberty, the everready minions of power, and the usual instruments of tyrants.
When, long after the spirit of the constitution has departed, moderation is at length so far lost by those in power, that even the semblance of freedom is removed, and the forms themselves of the constitution discontinued, and so far from their petitions and remonstrances being regarded, the agents who bear them are thrown into dungeons, and mercenary armies sent forth to force a new government upon them at the point of the bayonet.
When, in consequence of such acts of malfeasance and abdication on the part of the government, anarchy prevails, and civil society is dissolved into its original elements. In such a crisis, the first law of nature, the right of self-preservation, the inherent and inalienable rights of the people to appeal to first principles, and take their political affairs into their own hands in extreme cases, enjoins it as a right towards themselves, and a sacred obligation to their posterity, to abolish such government, and create another in its stead, calculated to rescue them from impending dangers, and to secure their future welfare and happiness.
Nations, as well as individuals, are amenable for their acts to the public opinion of mankind. A statement of a part of our grievances is therefore submitted to an impartial world, in justification of the hazardous but unavoidable step now taken, of severing our political connection with the Mexican people, and assuming an independent attitude among the nations of the earth.
The Mexican government, by its colonization laws, invited and induced the Anglo-American population of Texas to colonize its wilderness under the pledged faith of a written constitution, that they should continue to enjoy that constitutional liberty and republican government to which they had been habituated in the land of their birth, the United States of America.
In this expectation they have been cruelly disappointed, inasmuch as the Mexican nation has acquiesced in the late changes made in the government by General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, who having overturned the constitution of his country, now offers us the cruel alternative, either to abandon our homes, acquired by so many privations, or submit to the most intolerable of all tyranny, the combined despotism of the sword and the priesthood.
It has sacrificed our welfare to the state of Coahuila, by which our interests have been continually depressed through a jealous and partial course of legislation, carried on at a far distant seat of government, by a hostile majority, in an unknown tongue, and this too, notwithstanding we have petitioned in the humblest terms for the establishment of a separate state government, and have, in accordance with the provisions of the national constitution, presented to the general Congress a republican constitution, which was, without just cause, contemptuously rejected.
It incarcerated in a dungeon, for a long time, one of our citizens, for no other cause but a zealous endeavor to procure the acceptance of our constitution, and the establishment of a state government.
It has failed and refused to secure, on a firm basis, the right of trial by jury, that palladium of civil liberty, and only safe guarantee for the life, liberty, and property of the citizen.
It has failed to establish any public system of education, although possessed of almost boundless resources, (the public domain,) and although it is an axiom in political science, that unless a people are educated and enlightened, it is idle to expect the continuance of civil liberty, or the capacity for self government.
It has suffered the military commandants, stationed among us, to exercise arbitrary acts of oppression and tyrrany, thus trampling upon the most sacred rights of the citizens, and rendering the military superior to the civil power.
It has dissolved, by force of arms, the state Congress of Coahuila and Texas, and obliged our representatives to fly for their lives from the seat of government, thus depriving us of the fundamental political right of representation.
It has demanded the surrender of a number of our citizens, and ordered military detachments to seize and carry them into the Interior for trial, in contempt of the civil authorities, and in defiance of the laws and the constitution.
It has made piratical attacks upon our commerce, by commissioning foreign desperadoes, and authorizing them to seize our vessels, and convey the property of our citizens to far distant ports for confiscation.
It denies us the right of worshipping the Almighty according to the dictates of our own conscience, by the support of a national religion, calculated to promote the temporal interest of its human functionaries, rather than the glory of the true and living God.
It has demanded us to deliver up our arms, which are essential to our defence, the rightful property of freemen, and formidable only to tyrannical governments.
It has invaded our country both by sea and by land, with intent to lay waste our territory, and drive us from our homes; and has now a large mercenary army advancing, to carry on against us a war of extermination.
It has, through its emissaries, incited the merciless savage, with the tomahawk and scalping knife, to massacre the inhabitants of our defenseless frontiers.
It hath been, during the whole time of our connection with it, the contemptible sport and victim of successive military revolutions, and hath continually exhibited every characteristic of a weak, corrupt, and tyrranical government.
These, and other grievances, were patiently borne by the people of Texas, untill they reached that point at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue. We then took up arms in defence of the national constitution. We appealed to our Mexican brethren for assistance. Our appeal has been made in vain. Though months have elapsed, no sympathetic response has yet been heard from the Interior. We are, therefore, forced to the melancholy conclusion, that the Mexican people have acquiesced in the destruction of their liberty, and the substitution therfor of a military government; that they are unfit to be free, and incapable of self government.
The necessity of self-preservation, therefore, now decrees our eternal political separation.
We, therefore, the delegates with plenary powers of the people of Texas, in solemn convention assembled, appealing to a candid world for the necessities of our condition, do hereby resolve and declare, that our political connection with the Mexican nation has forever ended, and that the people of Texas do now constitute a free, Sovereign, and independent republic, and are fully invested with all the rights and attributes which properly belong to independent nations; and, conscious of the rectitude of our intentions, we fearlessly and confidently commit the issue to the decision of the Supreme arbiter of the destinies of nations.