Happy Texas Independence Day!
marked its independence from Mexico with the adoption of the Texas Declaration of Independence.
The Mexican government at the time was clashing with the Anglo-American settlers in Texas. The government's power was becoming more concentrated at higher levels and citizens' rights were becoming restricted. Mexico also abolished slavery in Texas in 1829 while Anglo-Texans wanted to maintain chattel slavery. All of this led to the want of Anglo-Americans to secede.On March 2 in 1836, the Texas Declaration of Independence was adopted marking our Independence from Mexico.
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