Answer:
In both the people in a colonial region fought against their mother country for protection of what they saw as their rights and liberties.
The most immediate cause of the Texas Revolution was the refusal of many Texas, both Anglo and Mexican, to accept the governmental changes mandated by "Siete Leyes" which placed almost total power in the hands of the Mexican national government and Santa Anna.
Both the American colonists and the Texians fought against unjust rulers. In the American Revolution, the colonists saw King George III as an autocrat (dictator). He denied the colonists the rights of people in Great Britain. Texians saw Santa Anna in the same way.
