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's inclusion in the United States on January 3, 1959. Texas became a state due to various political conflicts, military successes, and nationalism. the course of 80 years. It began as simply a province of the Spanish Mexican Empire, and would eventually become the Lone Star State. Today, the Mexican Revolution was just a small beginning for the eventual state of Texas. In 1809, Texas was only a branch of the Spanish Empire and its inhabitants were mostly converted Native Americans and people of Spanish descent, but not born in Spain. The Spanish had more rights and were, by law, superior to all others. This, along with other oppressions by the Spanish against Mexicans (i.e. Native Americans and non-Spaniards), caused an uprising of the people which was started by a Catholic priest in 1809. It would be another 16 years before Mexico gained its 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 ban slavery in their new country. It was not a foreign idea. Some countries in Europe have already started doing the same. Along with the idea of ​​non-slavery, the Mexican people decided to adopt the Catholic religion as their national faith. This is because their mother country, 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, however, was not very populated...... middle of paper ......Its bicentenary or bicentennial of 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. (Mapping) « (1976) » Ethnolinguistic Distribution of Native Texas Indians 1500-1776 [Topographic] Retrieved from http://mappery.com/map-of/Ethnolinguistic-Distribution-of-Native-Texas-Indians-de-1500 -et-1776-Map11. “Stephen F. Austin (1793-1836).” Lone Star Junction: A Texas and Texas Historical Resource. http://www.lsjunction.com/people/austin.htm (accessed October 5, 2013).12. “Republic of Texas.” The civil war. http://www.sonofthesouth.net/texas/ (accessed September 2, 2013).