Texas In The 1820's Analysis

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Texas in the 1820’s was not part of the United States, Texas was a part of the Mexican culture.Texas was owned by general Santa Anna, who was only in control of Texas, not the whole Mexican culture. Texas in the 1820s was ruled by the Mexican nation, One goes through how Texas was in 1820, the American settlers, the Mexican requirements, the Alamo, and San Jacinto, Texas’ independence, and the inspired building and tradition from Texas in the 1800’s.
The Mexican army was built from peasants who were either dragooned(coerce) or drafted. The social and cultural part of Mexican was a part of a whole, Spain's anticipating with external challenges, “the first real threat to Spanish ascendancy in Mexico was internal; the independence movement, a …show more content…
Mexico's 31 states and the Federal District each has it’s own constitution, known as a state or local constitution. The Federal District's laws and regulations are published in their own respective Official . “ Studying how the local judiciary processed cases of debt, spousal abuse, vagrancy and theft among the poor in late colonial Mexico City, Scardaville finds that hearings were fair and sentences were appropriate and swift. "Based on Roman and medieval precedents," he says, "not Enlightenment notions of penal reform, court procedures were generally impartial and predictable, even in the thousands of informal hearings conducted in the nine Bourbon-era municipal tribunals. The magistrates generally respected the defendants' rights and conducted the hearings in accordance with rules of …show more content…
After the Alamo, the remaining survivors fled to San Jacinto. The Americans, led by Sam Houston, had about nine hundred soldiers and the Mexicans had about one thousand three hundred sixty soldiers. Only nine American soldiers are killed in this battle, Mexicans had six hundred thirty killed and seven hundred thirty captured, San Jacinto took only eighteen minutes. “When General Sam Houston defeated Santa Anna’s troops at San Jacinto, the rallying cry was “Remember the Alamo!” Houston’s surprise attack proved such a tactical advantage that he routed the larger force in just 18 minutes, effectively ending the Texas Revolution and leading to treaties that established the independent Republic of Texas.”(Breedlove and Cohen). The Americans eventually captured General Santa Anna and force him to sign a treaty declaring Texas’ independence. Mexico did not accept the
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