Texas GOP Pushes to Whitewash American History for Schoolchildren

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As others have said, slavery was not a significant cause of the Texas Revolution. Slavery had been nominally illegal for six years in Mexico because they wanted an alliance with France and banned it to get their approval. But the ban was laxly enforced, as evidenced by plenty of people in Texas still keeping slaves at the time. Meanwhile, the war broke out within a year of Santa Anna dissolving the Mexican constitution and congress to effectively rule as a dictator. You do the math on which one had the more direct effect. As another person pointed out, there were rebellions all over Mexico but the Texas one is just more notable because they won and joined the United States later.

There's no reason to lump this in with the American Civil War, they were two separate events 30 years apart with completely different causes.  Just because the Civil War was primarily caused by slavery does not mean every 19th century conflict was.

Not surprisingly the left is jumping on this though given they've recently entered into a competition with the right in the junk history department.