The Constitution of the United States established America's national government and fundamental laws, and guaranteed certain basic rights for its citizens. It was signed on September 17, 1787, by delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia
It was a federal law aim to make Native Americans becoming farmers and landowners by providing cooperating families with acres of reservation land for farming or for grazing.
In March 1836, Mexican forces overran the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas, achieving victory over those who had declared Texas' independence from Mexico just a few weeks earlier.