The Road to the Texas Revolution

The Road to the Texas Revolution

The Fredonian Rebellion

In 1825 Haden Edwards, a businessman from Kentucky, received an empresario contract. He had permission to settle families near Nacogdoches. When he arrived, he found that many people had been living on the land for years. 

Multiple Choice

What is an empresario?

• a man who received a land grant from the Mexican government in order to bring settlers into Texas

• a man who could do a salsa dance and sing at the same time

• a man who could serve as a barista in times of need

A Bad Empresario

• Edwards ordered the settlers who had lived on the land for generation, and no longer had original titles to the land. Edwards demanded that they pay him for a title or leave. The people protested to Mexican officials, who responded by canceling Edwards’s contract.

Multiple Choice

Hayden Edwards, an Empresario, had his land grant cancelled by the Mexican government when he ordered settlers to show their land titles or pay him for a new one.

• Report of Mier y Teran

• Turtle Bayou Resolutions

• Fredonian Rebellion

• Law of April 6, 1830

Multiple Choice

Why were many of the early settlers unable to show proof of their land titles to Haden Edwards when he arrived at Nacogdoches?

• The titles were written with disappearing ink

• Over many years, the early settlers had inherited land passed down from family members, and they no longer had the original documentation.

• The whole state of Texas was owned by the Mayan Natives that had no writing system

Mier Y Teran Report

After the whites strarted the Freedonian Rebellion, Mexico started to get worried about what was going on in Tejas. With the help of Stephen F Austin they beat up the Freedonian rebellion but Mexico was still worried. They sent Mier Y Teran to go investigate Tejas. After spying on them he sent word back to the president of Mexico- Santa Anna that there were A LOT of Anglos in Mexico And they were not following ANY of the rules 

Multiple Choice

Which of the following was NOT responsible for the tension between the Mexican government and Anglo Texan settlers at this time?

• Hayden Edwards Fredonian Rebellion

• different religious values

• different opinions about the issue of slavery

• more rules and regulations from the Mexican government

Multiple Choice

Investigation of Texas that concluded there needed to be more trade between Mexico and Texas, more Mexican soldiers in Texas, and more Mexican settlers to counter the growing American influence in Texas.

• Fredonian Rebellion

• Law of April 6, 1830

• Austin is arrested

• eeport of Mier y Teran

The Law of April 6

Not only did they give them EXTREMLY cheap land but they gave them very very simple rules for them to follow. They didn’t even have to pay taxes and they could not follow 3 simple rules. So Santa Anna ordered for the Law of April 1830. 

Multiple Choice

What did the Mier Y Teran report find out

• Texans were ready to have a revolution

• Texans were breraking all the rules

Multiple Choice

Banned U.S. immigration to Texas, taxed all U.S. imports, outlawed slavery, cancelled unfilled Empresario contracts.

• Law of April 6, 1830

• Conflict at Anahuac

• Turtle Bayou Resolutions

• Mier y Teran Repor

The Law of April 6

-No Immigration from the U.S.

-Canceled all empresario grants

-No more Slaves

-Taxed and brought soldiers

Multiple Choice

The Law of April 6th 1830 was Mexico's attempt to-

• Give more empresario land grants to Anglos

• Weaken American influence in Texas

• Strengthen the Texas Government

• Remove all Texans from San Antonio

Multiple Choice

What forbade slaves from being brought to Texas?

• Was arrested for treason

• Got a new empresario contract

• Took command of the Texas Army

Multiple Choice

Banned U.S. immigration to Texas, taxed all U.S. imports, outlawed slavery, cancelled unfilled Empresario contracts.

• Mier y Teran Report

• Turtle Bayou Resolutions

• Conflict at Anahuac

• Law of April 6, 1830

Multiple Choice

Last thing to know for today, Stephen F Austin was arrested after talking bad about the President in a letter to his fellow Texans.

This caused

• Texans and Mexico went to war

• Mexico created the law of April 6