Cinco De Mayo
...eny autonomy to Texas and were not happy with a coloization law that prevented immigration from the United States into Texas. The Texas Revolution inculed the battles of the Alamo, Goliad, and San Jacinto. When hostilities ceased, Mexican General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna agreed to withdraw his troops across the Rio Grande and recognize the independence of Texas. The Mexican congress rejected the agreement, and many Mexican assumed the nation would regain Texas. Its soon became apparent, however, that Mexico was in no position to retake Texas by force. The Lone Star Republic, as it was known, it remained independent from 1836 to 1845, when the United States Congress approved a joint resolution annexing Texas. Mexico cosidered this annextion an act of aggression, and the Mexican diploment in Washington, D.C.,broke off negotiations and went back to Mexico. Mexican Americans also celebrate Mexican Independence Day on September 16th, Honoring the anniversary of the 1810 proclamtion in which the revolutionary priest Miguel Hi...