Why Do You Think Settlers From The United States Who Had Settled In Texas In The 1830S Wanted To Break Free From Mexico And Form Their Own Country? Why Did They Want To Become An Official Us State?

[uh8ana_]

khan academy article called Annexing Texas

[Buenchico]

Read the first few paragraphs under "The Texas War for Independence" here:
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-ushistory1os2xmaster/chapter/independence-for-texas/

[Old_Geezer]

Wouldn't you ?

[Peter Pedant]

erm uh - I think you read the Khan article and answer it from that.
in short off the top of my pretty head
the white settlers got a bad deal from the mexicans
[and the whites were looked on a bit like the FLoyd protestors today - just pains in the elbow] - and the social agencies were not exactly as you and I would wish

You know you can visit the site of the Texan Embassy in London 1843-5 ? - New Bond St Tube and walk to Savile Row

at the time - when the texicans were grabbing quite a large part of the Mehican empire ( 1845-50) - Vallejo suggested the disputed territory apply to join the British Empire !
Yeah thought that would wipe you out
And The Alamo - remember that? current minority view is that they wer ebetrayed from the inside and lined up against the wall and shot