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Election of Santa Anna
Santa Anna was elected president in 1833, winning by a landslide (People). ... Santa Anna personally led the army into Texas to squelch the revolution. He carried out a "take-no-prisoners" policy having everyone killed at the Alamo and at Goliad. -
Fredonian Rebellion
The settlers led by Haden Edwards. -
Mier y Teran Report
n 1827, the Mexican government sent General Manuel de Mier y Terán to investigate the situation. He warned that unless the Mexican government took timely measures, settlers were certain to rebel. ... Many colonists hoped that he would make Texas a self-governing state within the Mexican republic. -
Decree of April 6, 1830
The Law of April 6, 1830, said to be the same type of stimulus to the Texas Revolution that the Stamp Act was to the American Revolution, was initiated by Lucas Alamán y Escalada, Mexican minister of foreign relations, and was designed to stop the flood of immigration from the United States to Texas. -
Turtle bayou Resolution
Anglo-American settlers opposed to the rule of Mexican commander John Davis Bradburn fled from Anahuac north to the crossing on Turtle Bayou near James Taylor White's ranchhouse. -
Anahuac
The six forts and their garrisons were designed to enforce the Law of April 6, 1830 — passed only seven months before Colonel Bradburn arrived on his bluff – which was as repugnant to some of the Anglo colonists of Texas as England's Stamp Act had been to their forebears on the eve of the American Revolution. And it would have much the same effect. -
Convention of 1832
The Convention of 1832 was the first political gathering of colonists in Mexican Texas. Delegates sought reforms from the Mexican government and hoped to quell the widespread belief that settlers in Texas wished to secede from Mexico. -
Convention of 1833
The Convention of 1832 was the first political gathering of colonists in Mexican Texas. Delegates wanted reforms from the Mexican government and hoped to quiet the widespread rumors that settlers in Texas wished to secede (separate) from Mexico. -
The consultation
The Consultation served as the provisional government of Mexican Texas from October 1835 to March 1836 during the Texas Revolution. Tensions rose in Texas during early 1835 as throughout Mexico federalists began to oppose the increasingly centralist policies of the government. -
Arrest of Stephen F. Austin
Believing that he was pushing for Texas independence and suspect that he was trying to incite insurrection, Austin was arrested by the Mexican government in January 1834 in Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico. He was taken to Mexico City and imprisoned.
