Stephen F. Austin: The Father Of Texas

Stephen, despite being in shock but wanting to honor his dad, went anyway to San Antonio to give the loan for the enterprise. He arrived in August 1821, and the governor allowed Stephen to colonize under his dad’s grant. Stephen headed back to New Orleans where he got the terms published and was telling colonists where his colony would be located (on the Brazos and Colorado rivers). In the month of December of the same year, Stephen found out that Mexico did not approve the grant, because it did not fall under the general immigration law. Hearing this, Stephen went to Mexico City to fulfill the law. On January 3,1823 the law was fulfilled, and within the years 1825-1828, Stephen had settled 900 families in addition to his 300. In the year of 1830, congress prohibited immigration. Stephen tried to tell colonists about the evils of slavery but failed. Under the law of 1833, Texas had to be a slave state, and because Texas was now a slave state, it had problems with Mexico. Stephen F. Austin then held the Convention of 1833 in hopes of fixing the problems with Mexico. Much happened at the Convention of 1833, because Texas wanted its own independence, but Mexico refused. This led to a fight for independence. On October the 2nd, 1835 the battle of Gonzales took place. Stephen F. Austin was elected to command the volunteers there to help Texas go into battle. Texas won in the

In 1820 the Spanish who controlled Texas granted Moses Austin, Stephen F Austin’s father, permission to bring a number of American settlers to Texas but he died before he was able to. (http://www.tsl.texas.gov/treasure/giants/austin-1823plan-1.html) So Stephen lead the colonization of Texas. He was a settler and was eager and patient. He learned Spanish and

Sam Houston played a monumental role in sparking the Texas revolution. He believed that independence from Mexico was necessary saying that “war inevitable” and “urging volunteers to come to the aid of their Anglo brethren” (p. 60). Also, Houston’s role as commander-in-chief of the army was very important in winning the war for Texas Independence. After the capture of Santa Anna at the Battle of San Jacinto, many of the soldiers in the Texas Army wanted to execute him on the spot. But because of Sam Houston’s level head, he knew that “his prisoner was the key to removing all Mexicans soldiers from Texas without further bloodshed”, and “Jacinto became his password to Texas heroism forever” (p. 85-87). Furthermore, Houston’s leadership as the president of the Republic of Texas “kept the republic alive until it became a part of his mother country” (p. 198).

Known as “The Father of Texas”, Stephen Fuller Austin or Stephen F. Austin, fulfilled his father's dream of establishing the first Anglo American settlement in the Spanish owned the province of Texas. He accomplished many things in his life, such as winning the Texas freedom, going to law school, and was the president of Texas when it was it’s own country.

He brought about three hundred families to settle Texas. The location was on the Colorado and Brazos Rivers. First, the settlers had to agree to the following rules from Mexican government. To be qualified for Texas resident, they must become Roman Catholics and Mexican citizens. They also must obey all Mexican laws.

In the 1830’s, Texas fought for their independence from Mexico. This sparked the Mexican revolution. There were three main reasons why Texans wanted independence: Mexico outlawed slavery, high taxes, and the Mexicans wanted everyone to join the Catholic Church. One of the major players in Texas was Stephen Austin. He had 300 land grants which he gave to the Texans. After some time, Stephen Austin went all the way to Mexico to present petitions for a greater self-governing government for Texas. Even though Stephen Austin was known as the father of Texas, the President of Mexico harshly denied his request.

     In times before the confrontation at the Alamo, the Mexican government welcomed settlers into Texas. The motive behind Mexico’s act was to create a buffer zone between Mexican settlements and the Indians. Settlers were able to come to Texas as long as they promised to convert to Catholicism and become Mexican citizens among other

After a few years of the battle of the Alamo had occurred, Seguin was elected to the Texas senate in 1837, but much indifference came to him from the Tejanos and received hostility from Anglo land speculators, who did not want to take orders from him. Seguin began to see unjust not only in social treatments from the Anglos to Tejanos but Seguin began to notice that the Tejanos we’re being shut out of participation in, or even understanding of, the new government. Many Anglos began to resent Seguin and began to make riots towards him or his family, his family and himself were being looked upon as traitors. One reason why Anglos looked at Seguin as a traitor was what had happened in the year 1840. In 1840 Seguin had a meeting with a military superior named Mariano Arista, in that meeting Arista had try to convice Seguin to fight with the Mexicans to retake Texas. Seguin refused and returened to San Antonio in the wake of the Santa Fe expedition, in which a large number of Texans were captured and taken to Mexico City, this was a conspiracy on part of the Anglos that Seguin led these captures to happen. This was just the beginning to the end for Seguin. Seguin had notified President Houston of his suspicious that the Mexicans were planning a raid into the city. The Texan government refused to send any aid to the city, and Segun and most of the Tejano inhabitants evacuated the city during the Mexican

The battle for Texas’ independence was a hard battle. Many lives were taken, home destroyed, and families were torn apart. Texas residents wanted to break away from Mexico and become a self-governing republic inside of Mexico because they did not like Santa Anna’s laws. Mexico did not allow slave immigration, so Texas wanted to be a part of the United States that allowed slavery. But the main reason was that Mexico would not change or consider any government ideas that the Anglos and Mexicans had for Texas, and resulted in Santa Anna ruling and making all the laws and decisions. Santa Anna also overthrew the Mexican government and made himself the Mexican dictator. Stephen Austin came to try and settle the trouble caused by the suggestion of Texas’ constitution, but instead Santa Anna imprisoned him for a year.

First essay explains how many people became to settle into Texas. The relationship Between Stephen F. Austin and the patriarch of the Seguin family succeed in Bring Texas immigrants into to Texas. Austin convinced the Mexican Government to uphold their contract to the Spanish regime. Under that law Under that contract 67,000 acres of land for every 200 families to come into the colonies. The families would be clear of debt the incurred in the United States. Throughout the negotiations of the colonies. Austin created friendship among the

When President of Mexico, Antonio Lopez Santa Anna, abolished the Constitution of 1824 and turned the government towards centralism; Texians and Tejanos rebel to bring back the Constitution of 1824. However, before they can begin their fight to Goliad and San Antonio, the men need a leader; someone with great fame and popularity in Texas. The man they choose is Stephen F. Austin, who has much renown in the region. Austin has an outstanding knowledge in many areas, whom the people of Texas will always follow. They are always willing to listen to his advice on certain situations and topics. Austin’s history is what makes him the great man that people still believe and love. Today, he is seen as the Father of Texas because his work and dedication lead to its future growth.

In first chapter explains the history of African Americans in Texas and stability of Texas to the slave culture. Discusses the first slaves brought in by Stephen F. Austin and his colonist, where Stephen concluded Texas as a slave country. Even though Austin was not a fan of slavery, Texas was and had

In 1835 Texas was part of the Mexican state of Coahuila. Texas and its residents were governed as citizens of Mexico. For many years Mexican policies had rarely caused concern in Texas, although a large part of the population were Anglo-American immigrants who were attracted by the generous land policies.

Moses Austin would not live to see it come to fruition as he was attacked my highway men and died shortly thereafter. That would fall on his son, Stephen F. Austin, who is often referred to as the “Father of Texas”. Austin and the other settlers were drawn to the territory by grants and deferred taxation provided by the Spanish government; however, in 1821 Mexico declared independence from Spain. Austin was concerned that the new independent Mexican government would not recognize the previous arrangements made with his father. He would have to travel all the way to Mexico City to make his case, and in 1823 the Mexican Congress confirmed Austin’s grant.

While Texas leader Stephen Austin initially had no contempt toward Mexicans, the Anglo-American citizens in the area did. The American Texans of the 1800’s defined Mexicans as “a race alien to everything that Americans held dear” (De Leon 4). This sentiment would serve as the primary catalyst to the Texas secession from Mexico. When Austin began colonizing the area, he envisioned a place in which Anglo-Americans and Tejanos, Mexicans living in Texas, could live together. Eventually, though, the public opinions of North American settlers in the territory and in Washington would make him realize that the goal of unity between the two groups was impossible.