Mexican Government

By kim_eura

  • Marqies De Rubi

    Marqies De Rubi
    • He was the son of Francisco Pignatellity y de Aymerich.
    • Rubi went to Mexico City in mid- December 1765, and remained in the capital until March 1766.
    • From San Antonio, Rubi traveled to Los Adaes and began his inspection there on September 14.
    • He was summoned to court in 1769 to defend his proposals, and he was in Barcelona in April, 1722.

  • Phillip Nolan

    Phillip Nolan
    • Nolan came to Texas during the 1790s.
    • He and his employees made several trips to Texas.
    • He returned to Texas on another expediton and was killed in a fight with Spanish soldier near present Waco, Texas

  • Father Hidalgo

    Father Hidalgo
    • Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla is known as the father of Mexican independence.
    • Hidalgo, a priest from the village of Dolores, ordered the arrest of the native Spaniards in Dollores on September 16, 1810.
    • He was later captured and, after he was excommunicated and degraded from the priesthood was shot as a rebeion July 31 or August 1, 1811

  • Jose Gutierrez de Lara

    Jose Gutierrez de Lara
    • He was a Mexican revolutionary and diplomat.
    • During the Mexican War of Independence, Gutierrez and his brother were successful in formenting revolution in Nuero Suntander.
    • In October, he left for Washington, D.C. , with letters of introduction from John Sibley, and arrived on December 11, 1811..
    • In March 1812, Gurierrez return to Texas.

  • Dr. James Long

    Dr. James Long
    • He was the leader of tthe Long expedition.
    • He joined the United Statees Army to serve as a surgeon in the war of 1812.
    • After the final surrender of the expediton Long was imprisoned for a time in San Antonio.
    • He went to Mexico City on March 1822 to plead his case before Agustin De Iturbide, buut on April 8,1822, he was shot and killed by a guard.

  • Augustus Magee

    Augustus Magee
    • He was asn army officer.
    • He credited with being one of the best informed young officers in the United States Army.
    • He was recommended by his commanding by higher authorities.
    • About the middle September, he became seriously ill, bt he remained in actual command of the expedition untill his death on February 6, 1813

  • Battle of Medina

    Battle of Medina
    • The battle of Medina was fought on August 18, 1813.
    • This bloodiest battle ever fought on Texas soil took place twenty miles south of San Antonio.
    • The bodies of the republican warriors lost in battle were left to lie nine years on the battlefield until 1822.
    • By 1992, neither the Medina battlefield nor the burial sites of the soldiers had seen archeologically confirmed.

  • Jean Lafitte

    Jean Lafitte
    • d'Aury was chosen the civil and military leader of Texas and Galveston was declared part of the Mexican Republic on September 12, 1816.
    • They arrived at Galveston in May, 1817. And the island was named Galveztown by Spanish explorers, in honor of Bernardo de Gálvez y Madrid, a viceroy of New Spain.
    • In 1818, Lafitte was notified by President Monroe to leave the island as it was considered part of the Louisiana Purchase.
    • Spain was rerouting its shipping to the Gulf Of Mexico due to piracy.

  • Mexican Federal Constitution

    Mexican Federal Constitution
    • Constitutional government in Texas began with the Mexican federal Constitution of 1824.
    • The president and vice president were elected for four-year terms by the legislative bodies of the states, the lower house of Congress to elect in case of a tie or lack of a majority.
    • The judicial power was vested in a Supreme Court and superior courts of departments and districts.

  • State Constitution

    State Constitution
    • The Constitution of 1824 of the Republic of Mexico provided that each state in the republic should frame its own constitution.
    • The constitution divided the state into three departments, of which Texas, as the District of Bexar, was one.
    • Executive power was vested in a governor and vice governor, elected for four-year terms by popular vote.

  • State Colonization Law

    • After the fall of Iturbide, Mexico adopted a federal system similar to that of the United States,
    • The federal Congress passed the national colonization law on August 18, 1824.
    • Titles were limited to residents and were not to exceed eleven leagues to an individual.

  • Merger of Coahuila y Texas

    • The National Colonization Law of August 18, 1824, which superseded the Imperial Colonization Law,
    • The Federalist constituent legislature, meeting in Saltillo, passed the State Colonization Law of March 24, 1825.
    • By the mid-1820s Mexico began reconsidering its lenient immigration policy.
    • the Centralists in Mexico City, who ousted the Federalists in late 1829 and espoused a strong central government patterned after the monarchist Spain of old, implemented the Law of April 6, 1830.