By the late 1810s, a global revolution in Cotton had remade the U.
S.-Mexico border, bringing wealth and waves of Americans to the Gulf Coast while also devastating the lives and villages of Mexicans in Texas.
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Thousands of Anglo-Americans poured into Texas, but their insistence that Slavery accompany them sparked pitched battles across Mexico.
In response, Mexico threw open its northern territories to American farmers in hopes that Cotton could bring prosperity to the region.
By the late 1810s, a global revolution in Cotton had remade the U.
S.-Mexico border, bringing wealth and waves of Americans to the Gulf Coast while also devastating the lives and villages of Mexicans in Texas