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Mier y Teran Report
He visited Tx twice, first, as leader of a boundary commission expedition to Nacogdoches in 1828/29, second, as commandant general of the Eastern Interior Provinces, in which role he visited Galveston Bay in November 1831. Mier, who showed a special role for mathematics and engineering, graduated from the college of Mines in Mexico City in 1811. -
Constitution of 1824
Constitutional government in Texas began with the Mexican federal Constitution of 1824, which, to some was patterned after the United States Constitution but resembled more the Spanish Constitution of 1812. Congress was made the final interpreter of the document, the Catholic religion was made the state faith, and the church was supported by the public goverment. -
Fredonian Rebillion
The Fredonian Rebellion was a fight between the Mexican government and the Edwards brothers, Haden and Benjamin. Haden Edwards received his empresarial grant on April 14, 1825. It entitled him to settle as many as 800 families in a broad area around Nacogdoches in eastern Texas. Like all empresarios he was to uphold land grants certified by the Spanish and Mexican governments, provide an organization for the protection of all colonists in the area, and receive a land leader!!! -
Guerrero Decree
Guerrero may have acted under the influence of Jose Maria Tornel, who hoped the decree would be a check on American immigration, or he may have issued it as a personal measure because his enemies accused him of being partly of African descent. Ended slavery in Mexico! -
Law of April 6, 1830
The Law of April 6,1830, said to be the same type of energy or emotion to the Texas Revolution that the Stamp act was to the American Revolution, was initiated by Lucas Alaman y Escalada, Mexican minister of foreign relations, and was designed to stop the flood of immigration from the United States to Texas. The law came as a result of the warning and communications of Manuel de Mier y Teran, who made fourteen recommendations directed toward colonization. -
Turtle Bayou Resolution
On June 12, 1832, Anglo-American settlers opposed to the rule of Mexican commander John Davis Bradburn went from Anahuac north to the crossing on Turtle Bayou near James Taylor White's ranchhouse. White was not a participant in the attack against Anahuac being a supporter of its commander. The Texas rebels had just learned that the antiadministration Federalist army had won a significant victory under the leadership of Antonio López de Santa Anna. -
Conflict at Anahuac
Two major events at Anahuac in 1832 and 1835, they upset those who wanted to maintain the status q with Mexican authorities and though helped to precipitate the Texas Revolution. Both difficulties centered around the collection of customs by the national government of Mexico. -
Battle of Velasco
The battle of Velasco took place on June 26, 1832. There were seven Texans killed and fourteen wounded; three of the fourteen later died of their wounds. The Mexicans had five killed and sixteen wounded. Final terms allowed Ugartechea to surrender with the honors of war and return to Mexico aboard a ship furnished by the colonists. The final surrender took place in camp at the mouth of the Brazos on June 29, 1832, in the form of a document signed by Texas representatives William H. -
Convention of 1832
The Convention of 1832 was the first political gathering of colonists in Mexican Texas. Delegates sought reforms from the Mexican government and hoped to quell the widespread belief that settlers in Texas wished to secede from Mexico. -
Convention of 1833
The Convention of 1833 was a political gathering of settlers in Mexican Texas. A successor to the Convention of 1832, whose requests had not been addressed. -
SFA goes to Mexico City
Stephen F. Austin left to San Felipe in April. He arrived in Mexico City in July. After unavoidable delays, he had persuaded the government to revoke the Law of April 6, 1830, and to promise important reforms in Texas local government. -
The Consultation
The Consultation served as the provisional government of Mexican Texas from November 1835 to March 1836 during the Texas Revolution. Tensions rose in Texas during early 1835 as throughout Mexico federalists began to oppose the increasingly centralist policies of the government.
