Texas was a province of Mexican foreign settlers were invited to help develop the land and its resources by about 1830 American settlers outnumbered Mexican citizens they begin to take over Regional Administration and to insist on special us-based privileges such as owning slaves appointing their own Ramen and using US legal principles for land ownership none of these things were acceptable to Mexican government who have legal responsibility for Texas tensions grew up between American settlers and the American population who asked for military protection in 1836 American settlers illegally occupied the Mission Station El Alami and claimed it as part of the USA of course the Mexican Government attacked any self-respecting they would do the same what would happen today if the Polynesian majority in Hawaii proclaimed a separate country run on their ancient monarchists principles