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CHAPTER
9
GUIDED READING
Expansion in Texas
Section 3
A. As you read this section, answer questions about the time line.
1821
1823
Mexico offers land
grants to anyone bringing settlers to Texas.
1. Why did Mexico want
Americans to settle in Texas?
2. Why did Americans want to
settle in Texas?
1824
3. What brought American settlers into conflict with the Mexican
government?
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1835
1836
The Texas Revolution
is led by Texans eager
to gain independence
from Mexico.
4. What happened at the Alamo?
The Republic of Texas
is founded.
1838
Sam Houston invites
the United States to
annex the new
republic.
1845
Texas becomes the
twenty-eighth state of
the Union.
5. Why was the United States at first reluctant to annex Texas?
B. On the back of this paper, explain why Stephen F. Austin and
Antonio López de Santa Anna were major historical figures.
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