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TTVmeatce t1_ja45cp0 wrote

Reply to comment by Cwallace98 in TIL of the Battle of San Jacinto. Just six weeks after the Texans terrible loss at The Alamo in 1836. The Texans regrouped under Sam Houston, and surprised the Mexican forces and overwhelming defeated the Mexicans. The Texans had 11 soldiers killed and the Mexicans lost 650. by triviafrenzy

yep. In Texas history we're taught that Texians revolted because Santa Ana violated the constitution of 1824. What they don't teach is that the part he violated was the part that allowed for slavery. Also left out the part where American slave owners/slavery supporters were moved into the state just to help tip the scale.

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Ameisen t1_ja574tw wrote

Slavery played a part, but the Texan Revolution was a part of a larger, general set of insurrections within Mexico at the time (the Mexican Federalist War) against Santa Anna.

Slavery was absolutely a cause, but the general trigger was the increasing centralization of the Mexican government. It wasn't that they violated the constitution, but that they replaced it with a centralist one in 1835.

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TTVmeatce t1_jabrq92 wrote

in Texas it was slavery. It was an entire imperialist production by American slave owners

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justsikko t1_ja55z3p wrote

The vast majority of the soldiers who fought in the battle of San Jacinto didn't even live in Texas before the revolt

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