The state of Texas was the 28th state added to the United States of America on December 29, 1845. At the time, it was the largest state in the United States and would remain so until Alaska was included in the United States on January 3, 1959. Texas became a state due to several political conflicts, military success, and nationalism. over the course of 80 years. It began as just a province of the Spanish Empire of Mexico and would eventually become the Lone Star State. Now, the Mexican Revolution was only a small beginning for the eventual state of Texas. In 1809, Texas was just a homeland of the Spanish Empire and its inhabitants were mostly converted Native Americans and people of Spanish descent, but not natives of Spain. Those born in Spain had more rights and were, according to the law, superior to all others. This and other oppression by the Spanish against Mexicans (i.e. Native Americans and non-Spaniards), caused a revolt of the common people started by a Catholic priest in 1809. It would take another 16 years before Mexico won its war. independence from Spain as the United States had from Great Britain. The oppression of the Spanish was so hated that when the new country of Mexico created its Constitution, they decided to completely outlaw slavery in their new country. This was not a foreign idea. Some European countries had already begun to do the same. Now, along with the idea of ​​abolishing slavery, the Mexican people have decided to adopt the Catholic religion as their national faith. This is because their homeland, Spain, which created them, was a Catholic country and that was what they knew and practiced. The land that Mexico now had under its control was not heavily populated however... middle of paper ......Its Bicentenario or Bicentenario De La Independencia in 2010."" Mexico Travel Guide - Mexonline.com. http://www.mexonline.com/mexican-independence.htm (accessed September 2, 2013).9. Mendoza, Alexander and Charles David Grear. Texans and War New Interpretations of the State's Military History.. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2012.10. Skeels, Lindia LM.(Cartographer) “(1976)” Ethnolinguistic Distribution of Native Indians of Texas 1500-1776 [Topographic] Retrieved from http://mappery.com/map-of/Ethnolinguistic-Distribution-of-Native-Texas- Indians -from-1500-and-1776-Map11. "Stephen F. Austin (1793-1836)." Lone Star Junction: A Texas and Texas Historic Resource. http://www.lsconnection.com/people/austin.htm (accessed October 5, 2013).12. “Republic of Texas.” The civil war. http://www.sonofthesouth.net/texas/ (accessed September 2, 2013).