Instructor ESources PowerPoint Presentation Chapter 3 Mexican Texas, 18211836

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Chapter 3Mexican Texas, 1821-1836

• The History of Texas
• Harlan Davidson, Inc.

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Learning Outcomes (3)

• be knowledgeable concerning frontier institutions
  their impact on Texas culture society
• think about the implications of Indian
  accommodation resistance in the Far Northern
  Frontera
• appreciate the relationship between Bourbon
  reforms the independence movement
• cite the key components of Spains legacy in the
  colonial era

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Chapter 3Mexican Texas, 1821-1836

• Mexico continues colonization policy
• Empresarios filibusters
• James Long
• Haden Edwards
• Stephen F. Austin
• Philip Nolan
• Anglo-American immigration
• Colonization Laws
• Empresario Contracts

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The Mexican Government

• Native Mexicans of Texas
• Revival in fortunes
• Wealthy ranchos rancherías established
• Towns
• Anglos the Mexican Government
• Mexican nationality often ignored
• Haden Edwards Fredonia Republic
• Mier y Teráns mission report
• Law of April 6, 1830

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Martin de Leon of Victoria
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Mexican Texas

• Mexican American capitalists
• Search for economic prosperity
• Slavery settlement concessions
• Anti-slavery law exemption
• Stephen F. Austin promotes cotton industry
• Mounting grievances over governance
• Resistance to commercial regulations
• Demand for rights as Mexican citizens
• Emergence of war party peace party
• Division of Coahuila y Tejas sought

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Mexican Texas

• Tejano Anglo American petitions
• New leaders emerge
• Erasmo Seguín son, Juan N.
• Lorenzo de Zavala
• José Antonio Navarro
• José Francisco Ruiz
• William John Wharton
• David G. Burnet
• Sam Houston

José Antonio Navarro
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Mexican Texas

• Coahuila y Texas
• Move to separate fails
• Liberal legislation accepts English extends
  empresario contracts
• Coahuilan legislature raises Texass
  representation
• Ineffectiveness of Law of April 6, 1830
• Land speculation
• Illegal immigration rises

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A Multicultural Society

• Anglos
• Towns trade
• Education the press
• Local militias
• Blacks the peculiar institution
• slavery perpetuated despite Mexican law
• By 1836, 5,000 slaves in Texas
• Runaways seek refuge with Indians

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A Multicultural Society

• Tejanos
• Urban settlements, rancheros, small farms
• A divided society
• Social divisions
• Gender divisions
• Education
• Native Americans
• Eastern Indian people decimated by war disease
• Plains tribes maintained traditional ways
• Arrival of Cherokee

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The War for Texas Independence

• Centralists back in power
• Relations unravel
• Travis Anahuac raid
• de Zavala flees to Texas
• Committees of correspondence
• General Cós arrives
• Confrontation in Gonzales
• Mexico moves to crush rebellion

Lorenzo de Zavala
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The War for Texas Independence

• Independence Movement
• Consultation of 1835
• Provisional government
• Declaration of Independence March 2, 1836
• Causes of the war
• Constitutional conflict
• Slavery economic factors
• Ethnocentrism racism
• Independence won
• Fall of the Alamo Goliad
• Battle of San Jacinto April 21, 1836
• Treaties of Velasco

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Key Words Terms (3)

• Manuel Mier y Teran
• Law of April 6, 1830
• Mexican Constitution of 1824
• General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
• General Perfecto de Cos
• Baron de Bastrop
• Old 300
• Philip Nolan
• Dr. James Long
• National Colonization Law of 1824
• Empresarios/contracts
• David G. Burnet
• Lorenzo de Zavala
• Green De Witt
• Martin de Leon
• John McMullen

• Patrick McGloin
• Stephen F. Austin
• Native Mexicans / Tejanos
• Martin de Leon
• Jose Antonio Navarro
• Jose Francisco Ruiz
• Jose Maria Balmaceda
• Erasmo Seguin
• Juan N. Seguin
• Consultation of 1835
• Come and Take It
• Battle of Gonzales
• Fall of the Alamo
• James W. Fannin / Fall of Goliad
• Battle of San Jacinto