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constitution
Stephen F. Austin conferred with the Mexican leaders who framed the Constitution of 1824, and Erasmo Seguín (Mayor of San Antonio) represented Texas in the assembly.Houses of Congress, 4 year terms for the President, and a Supreme Court.There was no particular effort to define the rights of the states and local affairs were independent of the federal government. -
Causes of the revolution TimeToast
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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, which came as a result of the warning Mier y Terán Report.The law forbade the further introduction of slaves into Mexico,and intended to suspend existing empresario contracts.The most objectionable from the Texan viewpoint, which was not included in the Mier y Terán Report, was to prohibit immigration from the United States. -
conflict ar anahuac
Col. Juan Davis Bradburn came to the mouth of the Trinity River on Galveston Bay with orders to establish a garrison and a town on October 26, 1830.His job was to help the collector of customs and prevent the entrance of immigrants from the United States in accord with the recently passed Law of April 6, 1830.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 -
fredonian rebelion
Haden Edwards received his empresarial grant on April 14, 1825 that entitled him to settle as many as 800 families in and around Nacogdoches in eastern Texas.Like all empresarios, he was to uphold land grants certified by the Spanish and Mexican governments of colonists already living in the area. Edwards forced settlers who could not proved ownership, both Anglo and native Hispanics, to move or pay him for their land. -
mier y teran report
Their job was to observe the natural resources and the Indians, to
discover the number and attitudes of the Americans living there,and to determine the United States‐Mexico boundary between theSabine and the Red rivers.The Commission left Mexico City inNovember 1827. Mier Terán, who traveled with a military escort, was joined by scientist, artist, & cartographer .
