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Constitution of 1824
The residence had to pay taxes for catholic church they didn't use,which angered them. The Constitutional government in Texas began with the Mexican federal Constitution of 1824, which, to some degree, 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 treasury. -
Fredonian Rebelion
It impacted relationship of texas residence and mexican government by when texas residence rebelled against mexican government. The Fredonian Rebellion was a dispute 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. -
Mier Y Teran Report
Their job was to observe the natural resources. The purpose was to observe the number and attitudes of Americans living there and determine the U.S.-Mexico boundary b/w the Sabine and Red Rivers. -
Guerrero Decree
The Guerrero Decree abolished slavery throughout the Re‐
public of Mexico was issued by President Vicente R. Guer
rero -
SFA goes to Mexico City
For various causes, Austin was the only one of the commissioners that went to Mexico. He set out shortly after the adjournment of the convention, and reached the capitol in time to see it the scene of confusion and intrigue. As his stay in Mexico was lengthy, and greatly prolonged by political events, it will be proper to refer to them in this place. -
Law of April 6, 1830
The Law of April 6, 1830 was designed to stop the flood of immigration from the United States to Texas. The Law of April 6, 1830, said to be the same type of stimulus to the Texas Revolution that the Stamp Act was to the American Revolution, was initiated by Lucas Alamán y Escalada, Mexican minister of foreign relations, and was designed to stop the flood of immigration from the United States to Texas. -
Conflict at Anahuac
There were many problems with ship captains refusing to pay tariffs,
however the primary issue resulted when anglo settlers William
Travis and Patrick Jack were arrested.
Settlers organized a rescue force of perhaps 200 men, who reached Turtle Bayou. -
Turtle Bayou Resolutions
On June 12, 1832, settlers opposed to the rule of Mexican com
mander John Davis Bradburn fled from Anahuac north to the
crossing on Turtle Bayou. -
Battle of Velasco
The Battle of Velasco, which took place on June 26, 1832, was
probably the first case of bloodshed in the relationship between
Texas and Mexico. -
Convention of 1832
The Convention of 1832 was held at San Felipe de Austin after
the Anahuac Disturbances, the Battle of Velasco, and the Turtle
Bayou Resolutions. Fifty‐five delegates elected Stephen F. Austin president. -
Convention of 1833
The Convention of 1833 met at San Felipe on April 1 as a successor to the Convention of 1832, to which San Fernando de Béxar (San Antonio) had refused to send delegates. While Stephen F. Austin was visiting the Mexican settlements in an effort to secure their cooperation, less patient settlers called the new convention, which met on the day that Antonio López de Santa Anna took power. -
The Consulation
The Consultation grew out of a proposed meeting of Texas representatives to confer on the prerevolutionary quarrel with Mexico. This idea was first advocated by opponents of revolution in the early summer of 1835 in Mina Municipality. Moderate and radical elements endorsed the concept to present a unified front. A meeting in Columbia on August 15 first used the term consultation, perhaps to avoid the revolutionary connotations that the word convention implied in Mexican politics.
