Oversimplified version: Texas: "Indepen" Mexico: "no" Texas: "yes" Mexico: "no" Texas: "war" Mexico: "ok" Texas wins. Texan Republic: "i want to be state" USA: "no" Texan Republic: "ok" Ten. Years. Later. Texan Republic: "i want to be state" USA: "no" Texan Republic: "yes" USA: "no" Texan Republic: "yes" USA: "ok" Texan Republic: "thanks" Mexico: "texas mine" Texan Republic: "You see how it's absolutely not?" USA: "war mexic" Mexico: "ok" USA has won. Texas is now a state.

I'm from Austria 🇦🇹 and I've never heard of this revolution... And I didn't know that Texas was a part of Mexico... 😂 Soo... Thanks a lot :D

Instead of taking years and centuries to either find or read a boring article online, I go to youtube. My teacher is making us do a whole bunch of essays about the westward expansion. But I joined late so it's pretty hard. But youtube is my savior yet again.

Thx for making these videos they help me with school.

You kinda skipped a step after the Alamo there... There was the whole WINNNG thing, for instance.

Who watching dis in quarintine??

Great Videos.

Hello 👋🏻,im from Mexico and years ago the school told us a really difrent story bout TX independence, my teacher only said that Mexico had to pay the US and Mexico had no money so, Benito Juárez gave them Tx, and a couple months ago I visited the Texas history museum and i realized that i’ve been believing a lie all this time! So a week ago at My New school, the teacher told us the same old story and when I talked to my class about this new one, they were like...🤯😱

I think it would be better if you actually talked about the battles during the revolution

Good, but it seemed a bit shallow. Many details in some places and not enough in others. Doing it in 5 minutes may have improved this greatly.

Thx u this was helpful have a test tommrow on this it helped

thank you it helped me with my studys

the way he makes the legs look for the stick figures- 😳

Thank you for making it short and sweet. I haven't even started watching but you the goat. Fuck history class.

Although I realize this is an extremely condensed version of the reasons for Texas Independence which necessarily omits many facts, the facts that remain are skewed at best. Stephen F. Austin was indeed born in Virginia, but he was raised in Missouri and considered himself as such. I also have a real problem with your caricature of him: he was always clean shaven, whereas you have him looking like a conquistador. The colonization of Texas was not his idea, but that of his father, Moses Austin, who died in 1821 before he could realize this dream and asked his son to see it through. The Mexican Constitution of 1824 was written in such a way to allow the colonists certain freedoms they enjoyed in the US, mainly because outlawing slavery, for example, would not be profitable for the Government's new reliance of cotton. Your video makes it seem as though Texas colonists wanted to be a part of the USA from the start (key word there), which is false. By the time the Texas Revolution got underway, Zacatecas and other regions of Mexico were also revolting against the increasing tyranny of Santa Anna. Austin was very diplomatic on his trips to visit officials in Saltillo (the government of Texas was removed from San Antonio to Saltillo when Santa Anna felt Texas should be a part of Coahuila, which was another complaint) and Mexico City, he was met both willingly and as a traitor, even though he was following the Constitutional law and the agreements of colonization. Also, as mentioned below, the Alamo was a failure, even though it bought time, that was not the intent. Sam Houston sent Bowie to the Alamo with orders to destroy it after Neill defeated Cos at the Seige of Bexar in December 1835. Neill convinced Bowie it would make a great defense. The Republic of Texas declared Independence on March 2, 1836, while the Alamo fell on the 6th. On April 21, 1836, Texas won its independence by defeating Santa Anna at the Battle of San Jacinto. The Republic of Texas survived 9 difficult and turbulent years, largely due, in my opinion, to presidential term lengths which were limited to two then three years, but no immediate succession. Sam Houston and Mirabeau Lamar were as different as Obama and Trump, imagine back-to-back short terms like this and one would understand the mess. This situation and similar ones went on for nine years of Texas being a recognized republic by virtually everywhere but Mexico. Texas needed a fix, and although the long standing idea was Texas' admittance to the Union is well known, Andrew Jackson wanted no part of it as it would allude (rightly) that he wanted Texas all along, so when Polk became president, Texas soon became a state.

Texas was not actually shaped like it is today. It extended to the start of the Rio Grande river and up to Colorado and Wyoming. (Though disputed territory- Texas sold it to US) This land was sold in 1853 to the US to pay off the debt from the war.

Thanks man

The Alamo wasn't the 1st battle. I was looking for a good video to show several children I am tutoring. Battle of Gonzales is not mentioned. Also, a bit of background on the missions used as forts such as the Alamo could improve this.

The anglos made a revolution, (which they had no right because it was not their land), just because the Mexicans did not let them have their slaves there

I've had to watch this video so many times........against my own will.

Awesome!! Learned a lot. Just subscribed!!!!

Great informative videos man.. Keep it up

Wait until this Texas revolution video reaches 700 likes. Yee haws and yippie ca yay.

cool insight and intro to the history of my adopted land.. like many other gringro speculators, i knew a good place when i saw it. i can live in harmony with my neighbors and we have no color or history issues....

I like this informative video, but I don't appreciate the stereotypical depiction of General Santa Anna as a Mexican Mariachi musician. He was a general and President of Mexico and should be drawn as such. It almost makes this video inappropriate for my classes because it spreads false stereotypes.

If you dont know this, this flag used to be the Republic of Texas. Which is used now present.

and this explenation at the botton then why did he do the video

Plus what kind of intro is that

Original Texans loved slavery and when Mexican law tried to take that away THEN that's when Texans revolted. And it was not at the Alamo where Texans got there independence. This video is very misleading.

The Aztecs, Toltecs, Mayans & Olmecs were never in Texas.... The were in the southern regions of Mexico & Central America. Starting off with wrong facts & there are more after that...

Santa Anna did not look like that, he was from Spanish descent

anyone in quarantine rn?

Did u just skim over a Wikipedia page and half ass the historical context

My teacher made me too. :(

Thought Monkey -- Your intro suggests that the U.S. controlled all of North America north of Mexico. What happened to Canada? What happened to the Lakota, Cheyenne, Comanche, Apache, Ute, etc ? Your writing in your intro shows the Aztecs as being displaced by the Toltecs, who were displaced by the Mayans, who were displaced by the Olmecs. That's backwards. And, it doesn't really relate much to Texas, except that the Aztecs invaded Mexico from the north (so maybe ((?)) they came from or through Texas). An introduction to Texas history should mention the Caddo, Tonkawa, Karankawa, Hueco, Coahuiltecans, Bidai, Jumano, Apache, etc. Then it should mention the movement of the Spanish into the area from the south while the Comanche were moving into the area from the north. At 0:30 -- The history did not "all start" in 1821. Moses Austin received permission from Spain to bring colonists into Tejas before Mexico won its independence from Spain. The folks living in Tejas supported the revolt and expected to be better off with Mexican independence. I think that Mexico did not start with a Federalist form of government. I think that was put into place by the Constitution or 1824. At 1:00 -- No, let's again remember that Spain had already started a program to increase the population in Texas. At 1:25 -- Stephen Austin spent most of his life in Missouri, under Spanish rule. I doubt that he would have called himself a Virginian. At 1:30 -- Austin was the first empresario, but not the only one. Mexico commissioned 24 empresarios to promote the colonization of Texas. Do you really believe that Austin by himself brought in 10,000 American settlers? And, why did you not mention the Irish colony around Victoria? And, why did you not mention the many immigrants from Germany, England, Scotland, Wales, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, etc.? At 1:35 -- You insinuate that the Tejano population was "not white." Much of it came from Europeans who had moved through Mexico to Texas. Some of it had moved into Texas directly from the Canary Islands. Most of it was a mix of European and Native American parentage, as most Mexicans are today. They have many different shades of skin color, and some of them are "white." You also ignore the colony of Cherokee who had moved into Texas from the southern Appalachians. The Mexican government did not invite the Cherokee into Texas, but made no effort to remove them. At 2:30 -- In 1835, after Santa Anna repudiated the Constitution of 1824, Texas (and many other parts of Mexico) declared loyalty to the Constitution of 1824 and refused to accept Santa Anna as president/dictator. You are correct that the Texicans forced all Mexican military units out of Texas in 1835. However, do you really believe that they forced the Mexican military "all the way back to Mexico City" ? That would have required a long chase lasting a few months over a tremendous stretch of Mexico. At 2:50 -- Most of the rebels in the Alamo had been in Texas since at least 1830. They had moved to Texas and taken Mexican citizenship. Some were recent arrivals, but some of them had been born in Texas -- with names such as Abamillo, Badillo, Espalier, Esparza, Fuentes, Guerrero, Losoya, Nava, and Seguin. At 3:10 -- Texas did not win its independence from Mexico at the Alamo. That happened at San Jacinto, about six weeks later. At 3:15 -- The U.S. did not claim Texas as a result of its 1846-1848 war with Mexico. Texas had already maintained itself as an independent nation for almost ten years. Texas signed a treaty which merged itself into the U.S. After the war, the U.S. purchased from Mexico the land between the Rio Grande and the Pacific Ocean. However, that's a different topic, not really a part of Texas history.

DO NOT WATCH. This is wildly inaccurate. It’s not even a jumping off point.

The vast majority of Alamo defenders being Americans & Europeans is very interesting.

At about 1:40-1:50, you stated that the Mexican population was less than half of the white Anglo population. While you didn't exactly say it, your wording suggests that the Mexican population was all brown and the Anglo population was all white. Please remember that part of the "Mexican" population included immigrants from the Canary Islands and from Spain -- not exactly "brown" folks. Just as today, some Mexicans are white, and most are a mixture of Native American and European. Also please remember that the "Anglo" population was not fully Anglo. Of the Texians who died at the Alamo, 29 were born in Europe, including a few from Denmark, Germany, and Spain. And, how do classify folks like Greenbury B. Logan and Hendrick Arnold? Arnold was a free black man who was one of the scouts for the Texian force which drove the Mexican garrison out of San Antonio in 1835. Logan was a free black man who was wounded in that battle, and Texas gave him 640 acres (one square mile) for his service. Both of these men spoke English (Anglo), but they weren't white. Arnold was a son-in-law of Erastus Smith, who like Jim Bowie, had married a Tejano (Texas-Mexican) woman. I promise you that those two men were not the only Anglos to marry Tejano women. Furthermore, your wording suggests that the Mexican population in Texas was loyal to Mexico. However, some of the men who died in the Alamo had names such as Abamillo, Badillo, Espalier, Esparza, Fuentes, Guerrero, Losoya, and Nava. Those are not Anglo names. Also, Juan Seguin's unit at San Jacinto was all Spanish-speaking Tejanos who fought for Texas independence from Mexico. The Vice-President of the Texas government during the revolution was Lorenzo de Zavala -- again, not an Anglo Texan. In summary, the Texas Revolution was much more complex than a simple Mexican vs Anglo conflict.

anyone wanna do my work?

June 9, 2021. An article in TIME magazine spells out the erroneous perception of the Alamo as a symbol of freedom. Texas maintains that myth to legitimize its existence and its current status quo. Also to promote tourism by providing a stage set that immortalizes that false narrative. The delicate matter of slavery is inconveniently resurrected. Texas for, Mexico against.

Problem is that Texas actually supported Santa Anna as he was a Mexican Federalist and the current president was a Centralist.

Since you call this a revolution. Perhaps you can explain the difference between a revolution and an invasion

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same

The loss of Texas would inevitably bring about that of New Mexico and the Californias and little by little our territory would be diminished until it was reduced to an insignificant expression, our existence as a nation bought with so much blood would end as those weak meteors, which from time to time shine and disappear into the sky.

Question: Where's Goliad? I don't think I saw Goliad mentioned at all even though it was a major Texan victory. I feel like you've missed almost everything except for the Stephen F. Austin jailed and the Alamo (no offense).

The US did not claim TX. We chose to join with a stipulation that we can succeed.

And then slavery becaMe legal In Texas

Who’s here for school

1:20 you forgot one. They couldnt use slave labor.

My great grandfather got a land grant for a duck?

Ok

We Was mexicans?

good for 3rd grade history

I like music with "maracas"

Me

Lamo

My ancestor came from Switzerland and fought for the independence of Texas since all the people that lived in that territory wanted it. European, Americans, Native Americans, Spanish were all part of a much bigger situation that involved Florida and territories out West. Mexico was in turmoil and under a petty dictator. This idea that it was race-driven is pure Marxist bologna. No wonder you don't understand why people of all backgrounds fought against the military might of Santa Anna.

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"Took it from the Toltecs who took it from the Mayans, etc"..... 20 seconds in and it's instantly horseshit.

Music so loud I can not hear what is being said

But remember.... Texas can separate from the union when ever. ....don't believe me ????

Then ask yourself.....why is it that Texas is the only "State " can fly state and union flag at the same level on individual flag poles ??????

Really couldn’t draw the Mexicans like normal people? Yikes.

school is the worst

i hate school and i will never ever like it

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this video could just be done like this. Texans wanted to keep their slaves in a country that abolished slavery completely and its second president was of african descent! thats it. there is your texan history!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mexico should have known better than allow unrestricted American immigration into Texas...awful decision

To hell with Texas. Tejas needs to be returned to Mexico!

Duhhh who wants to watch this type of stuff Angela: Not me -_- I feel like i will die from bordem

Bottom line of all this, Texas is mexico we all should know who the real immagrint's are..👈✌

This is🤮

lame

de todas formas al fina se robaron el territorio. así que como lo expliques, no lo quita lo ladrón a USA.

I hate this

this guy is the worst how are we soppoust to take notes if it is so fast and he only puts tiny things

how racist is this?

You put Santa Ana wearing a sombrero and maracas and then proceed to spew out false facts about history. Wildly inaccurate. Dislike.