Write one page on the Texas colonies (pls do not get it from the internet)

  In 1820, Spain had opened up the territory of Texas to American colonization because it was unable to persuade its own citizens to settle the remote and fairly unpopulated land. The following year, however, Mexico gained independence from Spain. Mexico Continued Spain’s colonization plan after its independence in 1821. American colonization of Texas took place from 1821 until 1835. They were attracted here for three reasons; the first being cheap, inexpensive land. Undeveloped land in the United States cost $1.25 per acre, while undeveloped land in Mexican-Texas cost only $0.04 cents an acre. The second reason was that, through the 1820s, most people believe the U.S. would buy Eastern Texas.

 Mexico, being a Catholic nation, required all of its immigrants to be Catholic as well. This caused problems because most of the American immigrants were Protestant. Later the 1825 Coahuila and Texas State Colonization Law changed this to where immigrants only need be Christian and abide by the laws, but there were still discrepancies between the two groups. Mexico also detested slavery. However, eager for American immigrants, they turned the other cheek in Texas. But when the Mexican president emancipated all slaves in 1829, it threatened American immigrants. They quickly found a loophole by making their slaves sign indentured servant contracts, binding them for ninety-nine years. Then later they secured an exemption from the law for Texas. After years of somewhat mutual living in Texas, the differences in the two groups, and the conflicts they caused proved to be too overwhelming. In 1835 Texas and Mexico go to war, and by 1836 Texas won its independence and became known as the Republic of Texas.

   Polk then sends a declaration of war to Congress. The events leading to the war, and the war itself, was a huge issue in Congress and divided it in two. After much debate the bill passes in both houses of Congress, barely, and the United States declares war with Mexico. Both Mexico and the U.S. had advantages and disadvantages during the war.

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from the religious point of view, the conflicts began because of the enmity between catholic and protestants. in 1649, at the insistence of baltimore, the colonial assembly approved the act of religious tolerance, the first law in the colonies granting freedom of worship, though only for christians. in 1654, however, with the protestants of maryland in the majority, the act was revoked. the almost civil war broke out and order was not restored until 1658, when lord baltimore was returned to power.

on the issue of class conflict, the chesapeake region offered few economic opportunities to contract employees who had served their term of obligation. even with the small amount of capital needed to grow tobacco, former hired servants at best became subsistence farmers, a mature class for those called to rebellion, such as those proposed by nathaniel bacon. as the number of new hired workers declined because of limited chances of progress and reports of severe treatment, they were replaced by african slaves.

from the racial point of view, after 1660, the chesapeake colonies imposed laws that defined slavery as a lifelong and hereditary condition based on race. this made slaves profitable because planters could rely not only on their work but also on their children. the slave population, which numbered four thousand in virginia and maryland in 1675, grew significantly by the end of the century.

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