Question
Why did the Texas settlers want to overthrow Santa Anna? to help restore the power of the Mexican so that they could be annexed by the United States so that slavery would be allowed in Mexico to make Sam Houston Mexico's president
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Oliver
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The primary reason Texas settlers wanted to overthrow Santa Anna was to gain greater autonomy and restore the Mexican federalist system, which would grant more power to the Mexican states.