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Explain why many Americans came to settle in Texas and how it became an independent nation.

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Answer: Following Mexico's independence from Spain in 1821, American settlers immigrated to Texas in even larger numbers, intent on taking the land from the new and vulnerable Mexican nation in order to create a new American slave state.

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