Causes of the Texas Revolution
Timeline
Fredonian Rebellion
Mier y Teran Report
Use textbook pages 216-218 to answer the following questions:
Use the reading to answer the following questions:
Date: _________________________________________________________________
Date: ___________________________________________________________________
Which group of people took control in Mexico in 1829?
Why was Mier y Teran sent to Texas?
What changes did they make to the government?
What did Mier y Teran suggest in his report?
What did Haden and Benjamin Edwards do to anger the Mexican
government?
How did the Fredonian Rebellion end?
What was the effect of Mier y Teran’s report?
Law of April 6, 1830
Use the reading to help answer the following questions:
Protests in Anahuac
Date: ___________________________________________________________________
Date: ________________________________________________________________
Pick 3 of the articles from the Law of April 6, 1830. Rewrite the article
in your own words. (Hint: Think about what each article is saying.)
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Read the diagram on page 224 in your book. Use this chart to answer
the following questions. (You many need to look at other pages to
answer these questions.):
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How did these conflicts affect relations between the Texans and
Mexico?
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How do you think the colonists felt about these laws? Why?
What can you infer from the diagram about Bradburn’s loyalty to
Mexico?
Turtle Bayou Resolution
Battle of Velasco
Use the reading to answer the following questions:
Use the reading to answer the following questions:
Date: ________________________________________________________________
Date: ___________________________________________________________________
Who do the colonists support, according to the Turtle Bayou
Resolution?
Where was Velasco?
Why did the Texans want to get a cannon?
What words are used to show loyalty to Mexico?
Who won the Battle of Velasco?
Why do you think they begin by saying they are writing these
resolutions “with feelings of the deepest regret”?
Why was the Battle of Velasco significant?
Conventions of 1832 and 1833
Imprisonment of Stephen F. Austin
Use textbook page 226 to answer the following questions:
Use the reading to answer the following questions:
Dates: _________________________________________________________________
Dates: _________________________________________________________________________
Who was one of the new delegates at the Convention of 1832? Where
was he from? What role did he play in the Convention?
Why did Stephen F. Austin go to Mexico City? What did he find when he
got there?
How did the outcomes of the Conventions of 1832 and 1833 differ?
What terms did Santa Anna agree to?
Why was Austin arrested?
Describe the government created by the constitution drafted at the
Convention of 1833.
Was Austin ever given a fair trial? Why is this significant?
Trouble Again in Anahuac
Consultation of 1835
Use the reading to answer the following questions:
Use the reading to answer the following questions:
Date: ______________________________________________________________________
Date: __________________________________________________________________________
What is a merchant?
How did the Peace Party and War Party differ?
What did Stephen F. Austin announce when he returned from Mexico?
Why were many merchants unhappy with the customs duty in
Anahuac?
Where did the Consultation actually take place? Why did they not meet
where they had originally intended?
How did General Cos react to Tenorio’s surrender?
What actions did the Consultation agree to take?
Why is General Cos’ action significant?