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Father Hidalgo
-He had native spaniards arrested for suspisions against him.
-He called for a rebellion with Texas and Mexico.
-Was then caught, captured, and stripped of his priest hood.
-He was later shot as a rebel and died. -
Philip Nolan
-He came to Texas in the 1790's with a plan to capture wild mustangs and sell them to Lousiana.
-THe suspicions of Phillip spending alot of time with the general and his capturing of horses with the mapmaking of Texas had a result of him getting arrested.
-He died in a fight with spanish soldiers in 1779. -
Marques de Rubi
-He made a document which impacted Texas greatly.
- Ordering the evacuation of all missions except for San Antonio and Bahfa.
-Also the removal of spanish soldiers and a indian implement policy. -
Jose Gutierrez de Lara
-On March 17, 1811 he went to the U.S to solicit aid.
-In Washington D.C he met up with his three allys to make plans to liberate Texas and Mexico on December 11, 1811.
-In April, 1812, they set out for Texas. -
Jean Laffite
-He snuck in and took over the island of Galveston on May 14, 1817.
-He was requested to leave by President Monroe because it was part of the Louisiana.
-He refused to and stayed until he got surrounded by a fleet of ships and was forced to leave in 1821. -
Augustus Magee
-Augustus served in the army.
-One of the best young informed officers in the U.S army
-About the middle of September he became ill with a disease from the Trinity River, then on February 6, 1813, dies. -
Dr. James Long, Fillbuster
-He served as a surgeon for the U.S.A in the war of 1812
-He assosiated with the W.W Walker company in Merchandising.
-James long commands a fillibuster group with plans to conquer texas,but they later fail and get imprisoned. -
Battle of Mendina
-Fought 20 miles south of San Antonio de Bexar.-Troops were led by General José Joaquín de Arredondo.
-The battle lasted four hours.
-Part of the Mexican War of Independence.
- The bloodiest battle ever fought in Texas. -
Merger of Coahuila and Texas
The merger was a contract made to attract people to settle in Texas.
The contract stated that each family could have a large amount of space in return for a nominal amount of money and a pledge that they would abide to the Mexican Government's rules.
By the 1820s, the government revoked the contract because too many people were violating the pledge that they had made, -
Mexican Federal Constituton
-The constitution of 1824 of the republic of Mexico provided that each state in the republic should frame its own constitution.
-The state Coahuila and the formere Spanish province of Texas combined as the stae if Coahuila and Texas.
-The legislature for the new state was organized at Satilloin in August 1824. -
State Colonization Law of 1825
-The state colonization law was established on 1825.
-The law said that no property could be granted within 20 leagues of an international boundary or within 10 leagues of the coast without permission from the federal executive authority. -
Constitution of Coahuila and Texas
The Mexican government required each state to frame its own -Constitution, which was published on March 11, 1827. The constitution made Catholicism the state religion.
-Guaranteed liberty, security, property, and equality.
-Slavery was also forbidden and the import of slaves would be forbidden as well withing 6 months,
