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and practicing their own laws, forgetting that they swore to obey the laws of Mexico.
Questions:
1.Sourcing:Who wrote this document? Were they Mexican or American? When did they write it?
2.Close Reading:Does this document present a positive or negative view of the American settlers in Texas?
Provide a quote to support your claim.
3.Sourcing:Do you trust the perspective of this document? Why or not?Texas Declaration of Independence
Source: The Texas Declaration of Independence, issued March 2,1836. The image shown below is a printed version
published shortly after the handwritten version was signed.(Figure 4.2).
FIGURE 4.2
Printed broadside version of the Texas
Declaration of IndependenceWhen a government has ceased to protect the lives, liberty and property of the people... it is the right of the people
to abolish such government, and create another one that will secure their future welfare and happiness.
General Santa Anna, has overturned the constitution of his country, and now offers us the cruel option either to
abandon our homes, or submit to the most intolerable of all tyranny.