Road to Revolution
Chapter 10 Notes Section 1 & 2
Essential Question:
What events cause political unrest ?
Political Unrest in Texas
-Fredonian Rebellion in 1826
-Haden Edward received empresario contract from Mexican government
-found settlers already living on land where he was to settle
-Edwards asked settlers to pay for new land title or prove ownership of land
Edwards threatened to sell their land if they did not pay
-official named Jose Antonio Saucedo said Edwards could not charge settlers
-Edwards protested the decision
-Mexican government cancelled Edwards’s contract
-Edwards’s brother, Benjamin, gathered small group of settlers and
claimed part of east Texas as the independent Republic of Fredonia
-December 21st, they adopted the Fredonian Declaration of Independence
-SF Austin supported Mexican government’s decision and called out militia
-rebels fled
Mexico tighten’s control in Texas
Mexican president Vincent Guerrero issued a decree ending slavery
-most Texans protest the Guerrero Decree
-they received an exemption that allowed them to keep their slaves
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Effect of the Fredonian Rebellion
-Mier y Teran Report
-rebellion was a small incident but attracted a lot of attention
-Mexican officials believed the rebellion to be part of US plot to acquire (take) TX
-Mexico sent more troops into East Texas to protect region
-sent Mexican general Mier y Teran to investigate conditions
-Teran noticed that Mexican influence in TX decreased as you
move eastward (closer to US)
-US settlers outnumbered Tejano’s 10 to 1
-Teran’s suggestion to Mexican president:
(1) trade between Texas and Mexico should be increased
(2) more soldiers sent to Texas to increase Mexico’s control
(3)Mexico should encourage more EUROPEAN and Mexican settlement
Effect of the Mier y Teran Report
-Lawof April 6th, 1830
-banned US immigration to Mexico
-made it illegal for settlers to bring in more slaves
-Mexican government wanted to bring in more Mexicans and Catholic
Europeans
-placed customs duties (taxes that raise money for gov’t) on all US imports
-law intended to strengthen Mexican control but it angered Tejanos and US
settlers
-settlers feared that friends and family members could not move to Texas
Chapter 10 Section 2
Essential Question: How do changes in
Mexican policies affect Texas?
Events as a result from the Law
of April 6th, 1830
-conflicts between military and settlers increased
- settlers rebelled against method of paying customs duties
-SF Austin wrote to colonel in charge of troops to complain
-battle was avoided when Austin reassured Mex gov’t that they were not trying
to be disloyal
-colonel arrested several citizens and held them for military trial
-angry settlers exchanged gunfire w/ Mx troops and took some soldiers as
prisoners
-colonel agreed to release settlers if angry settlers agreed to release soldiers
-colonel did not keep his word
-settlers drew up (wrote) Turtle Bayou Resolutions (statements of a groups
opinion)
(1) Events at Anahuac were not a rebellion
(2) They were defending their rights and constitution
(3) Expressed support for Gen Santa Anna that was trying to overthrow
President Bustamante because he had taken complete control of government
- second colonel released settlers
-second group of angry settlers arrived in Velasco with cannon
-settlers were not allowed to pass, fighting broke out, Mex troops
surrendered and settlers won the Battle of Velasco
-settlers arrived in Anahuac where the conflict had already settled
Summary
Create 3 protest signs
to voice your opinion on
the Law of April 6, 1830
Write the summary of
your notes on the back
page.