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The mexican constitution of 1824
In 1824 the Mexican congress and some people from Texas came together in Mexico to write the constitution of 1824. They wanted to have better rules on their country. They all suggested ideas that either got incorporated in the constitution or didn't. -
Fredonian Rebelion
An empresario named Haden Edwards gained a grant in April 14 1825 that entitled him to settle as many as 800 families in eastern texas he forced settlers who were not natives -
Mier y Teran Report
In 1827 President Victoria made General Manuel de
Mier y Terán lead the expedition into texas.Their job was to observe the natural resources and the India, to
find the of the Americans living there, -
Guerrero Decree
One of the presidents of Mexico, Vicente R. Guerrerero issued this law which abolished slavery throughout Mexico and Texas. The Texans rejected the idea and didn't want their state to be included in this law so it wasn't. They did this by petitioning. -
Law of April 6,1830
This law was made to stop the rising amount of people coming to Mexico. It abolished slavery which made most people question themselves before they came to Mexico. This was introduced throughout all of Mexico and Stephen F Austin objected and reduced the impact of this on Texas by complaining to the vice president of Mexico at the time. -
SFA goes to Mexico city
After SFA was elected to deliver the petitions he embarked on his journey to Mexico city and delivered them. After doing so and starting back home he was arrested under suspicion of trying to incite insurrection in Texas. He stayed In prison for a year and was released later but not allowed to leave Mexico City. -
Conflict at Anahuac
Juan Davis Bradburn A Mexican col. came to Galveston with orders of establishing a town and a garrison. The reason for this was to stop the amount of immigrants from the U.S. to Texas. This didn't go as planned because the anglo settlers refused to follow Bradburn's orders and in the end an exchange of hostages for settlers occurred. -
Turtle bayou resolutions
settlers opposed the rule of Mexican commander John Davis Bradburn fled from Anahuac north because the Texans were fighting Mexicans -
Battle of Velasco
was the first fight against mexico henry and john were the leaders of the army. Mexico surrendered when they ran out of bullets.The texans have 100-150 troops mexico had 91-200 -
Convention of 1832
The Convention of 1832 was held at San Felipe de Austin after the Anahauc disturbance ,the battle of velasco and turtle bayou and stephen austin was elected by 55 delegates to modify the april 1830 law -
Convention of 1833
This convention was held at San Felipe and during this convention the delegates proposed statehood for Texas and William H. Wharton was the head of this petition. Texans were starting to have enough and didn't want to be controlled by Mexico anymore. In the end this was proposed by sending SFA to Mexico to present all of these things. -
The consultation
The consultation was a debate between two sides. one wanted independence and the other which was led by SFA wanted to still be a part of Mexico. This debate was also held at San Felipe. Later the consultation established a provisional government which was based on the constitution of 1824. Sam Houston was also named commander of the army.
