Americans were starting to acually out number the Mexicans
Mexicans invited the American settlers into Texas. Texas-Mexico invited Americans to settle in Texas to stop Indian attacks. These settlers were required to be Catholic, become Mexican citizens, and follow Mexican laws.
Austin organized a colony by recruiting 300 American families to settle in fertile section of Texas.
sometime in the 1840's
Sam Houston made a deal with the Native Americans. Native Americans would stop raiding Texas settlements while Texas was settling in to being a free country and trying to annex the US as long as they could stay in Texas.
They didn't. After the Texas Revolution (1835-1836), Mexico viewed Texas as a rebel province to be re-acquired on a later date. After the Mexican-American War (1846-1848) Mexico was forced to stop any attempt on reclaiming Texas, as part of the Guadalupe-Hidalgo Treaty, which ended the war.
stephen wanted to stop fighting in the texas revolution.
Starting with Washington, Oregon, California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida. If you stop at the Mexican border then you end with Texas.
so that we could not do and trade with Mexico
In a car, it takes about 8 to 9 hours non stop.
They were afraid too many Americans would take over the government so they limited the numbers. Actually they weren’t far wrong. Look at what happened with California when they couldn’t stop of the flood of people in the gold rush.
The Americans rebelled against the Mexico government because they thought Mexico was bad. The Texans wanted to live in foreign lands without following their restricitions. They also believed they were in Mexico's destiny. Mexico was trying to tell people who lived in Texas how to live. The Americas who lived in Texas decided to go on with Mexico's rules, but they weren't happy about it. Even Mexicans who lived there were upset. The Texans also wanted to keep Texas a slave state. They wanted the people who moved there to be loyal to Mexico governmentlearn the spanish language, and revert to Roman Catholicism. At first they were content to live under the Mexico rule. But the two massacres brought bickering in opposition to Santa Anna.
Closest city would be Nuevo Laredo, across Laredo, Texas. Distance is 551 kilometers (343 miles) across a 6-hour, non-stop drive.