Tensions Grow
Who started the Fredonian Rebellion?
Hayden Edwards
Which disease transmitted by water, especially in hot places, was a big problem in Mexico City when Stephen F. Austin arrived in 1833?
Cholera
True or false?: After meeting with Santa Anna, SFA left Mexico City still feeling that Texas should be loyal to the Mexican government.
True.
In 1832, what was the connection between Juan Davis Bradburn and the town of Anahuac?
He was the Mexican tax collector during the first conflict in Anahuac (and he jailed two American settlers, causing a large number of American settlers in Texas to protest).
What do you call a ruler who has absolute power?
Dictator.
What was the location of the Fredonian Rebellion?
Nacogdoches
Where was Santa Anna when SFA arrived in Mexico City?
Out of town (afraid of the cholera epidemic)
What did SFA write a letter about, while he was waiting to meet with Santa Anna?
Name the two American settlers that Bradburn jailed in Anahuac in 1832.
William B. Travis and Patrick Jack.
Before Texas' Consultation of 1835, to which political party did SFA belong: War Party or Peace Party?
Peace Party
What was the first time Texas declared itself an independent country?
The Fredonian Rebellion
When and why did SFA leave Texas to go to Mexico City?
April 1833 (as the representative of Texas' Convention of 1833) to express Texas' loyalty to Mexico but also ask for reforms to the Law of April 6, 1830.
Why was SFA arrested in Saltillo?
What was it that many American settlers were most upset with Bradburn about?
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What did the Mexican government ask Mier y Teran to do, and why?
Go to Texas and write a report about what he saw there, to see if Mexico needed to be afraid of the American settlers taking control of Texas.
What were some reforms that Santa Anna told SFA he would agree to do, with regard to the Law of April 6, 1830?
Allow American immigration into Mexico, improve the court and postal systems, lessen taxes/tariffs, allow empresarioships to continue
How long was SFA imprisoned in Mexico City?
When and why did the Turtle Bayou Resolutions happen?
After the first conflict of Anahuac, because the American settlers in Texas wanted reforms to Mexico's Law of April 6, 1830.
In the second conflict at Anahuac (1835), who led a group of colonists from San Felipe that marched in protest of custom duties and forced the garrison commander to release Andrew Briscoe?
Wiliam B. Travis
What did the Mexican government do in response to the Mier y Teran report?
Enacted the Law of April 6, 1830.
Which of SFA's proposed reforms did Santa Anna not approve?
Texas becoming a separate Mexican state (apart from Coahuila).
What did SFA say when he returned to Texas after being imprisoned in Mexico City.
"War is our only recourse."
What was the first major military conflict between Mexican forces and Texas colonists, who were trying to transport a cannon down the Brazos River to aid fellow colonists protesting against Bradburn in Anahuac?
Battle of Velasco
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