Realrevolution

causes of the texas revolution

By lil jay
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    Mier y Teran Report

    www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=3&psid=551
    In 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. Differences in language and culture, Terán believed, had produced bitter enmity between the colonists and native Mexicans.
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    Fredonian Rebellion

    https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/jcf01
    The Fredonian Rebellion was a dispute between the Mexican government and the Edwards brothers, Haden and Benjamin. Haden Edwards received his empresarial grant on April 14, 1825. It entitled him to settle as many as 800 families in a broad area around Nacogdoches in eastern Texas.
  • Convention of 1832

    Convention of 1832
    https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/mjc09
    held at San Felipe de Austin, followed the Anahuac Disturbances, the battle of Velasco, and the Turtle Bayou Resolutions, in which many Texans pledged their support to then-liberal Antonio López de Santa Anna.
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    Anahuac

    https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/jca01
    1832 and 1835, upset those who wanted to maintain the status quo with Mexican authorities and thus helped to precipitate the Texas Revolution.
  • Turtle Bayou Resolutions

    Turtle Bayou Resolutions
    https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/mht01
    On June 12, 1832, 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.
  • Election of Santa Anna

    Election of Santa Anna
    https://www.andrews.edu/~rwright/Oldwww/Alamo/santa.html
    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.
  • Convention of 1833

    Convention of 1833
    https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/mjc10
    The Convention of 1833 met at San Felipe on April 1 as a successor to the Convention of 1832, to which San Fernando de Béxar (San Antonio) had refused to send delegates. ... Delegates also proposed to split Coahuila and Texas.
  • Arrest of Stephen F. Austin

    Arrest of Stephen F. Austin
    https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fau14
    The letter was intercepted by the government in San Antonio leading to Austin's arrest on the grounds of treason. After a year in prison in Mexico, Austin became convinced that Texas could never prosper under Mexican rule. Austin returned to Texas in 1835 to find his fellow Texans' simmering anti-government sentiment.
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    The Consultation

    https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/mjc08
    The Consultation grew out of a proposed meeting of Texas representatives to confer on the prerevolutionary quarrel with Mexico. This idea was first advocated by opponents of revolution in the early summer of 1835 in Mina Municipality.
  • Decree of April 6, 1830

    Decree of April 6, 1830
    https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/ngl01
    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