1. Tensions Mount

2. The Law of April 6, 1830 The law: 1. Outlawed immigration from the US
No more Americans could come to TX
2. Canceled all Empresario contracts that were not fulfilled.
Empresarios lost the right to bring Americans into TX
3. Encouraged Mexican and European settlement of Texas
Balance out the Americans living in TX
4. Slaves could not be brought to Texas
Texians thought this would hurt the cotton industry and the economy of TX
5. Customs duties (Taxes) were placed on goods from the U.S.
Caused the price of American goods to go up in TX

3. Problems with government officials
In 1832 American Juan (John) Bradburn was sent to Texas as a Mexican Army Colonel to strictly enforce Mexican laws on immigration. He used Mexican soldiers to dismantle an illegal squatter town named liberty.
He followed the April 6 law so closely that he upset many Texians.

4. Excavations of the Anahuac walls.
He also forced Texians to provide free labor to build a new fort named Anahuac (ah-na-walk) near Galveston.
The fort was used to collect taxes
Excavations of the Anahuac walls.

5. Texians did not like Anahauc because it was far out of the way from Galveston

6. Disturbance at Anahuac
In May of 1832 an American named William Logan came to the Anahuac to retrieve two runaway slaves.
Bradburn would not release the slaves without proof of ownership.
Logan hired a 22 year old lawyer name William Barrett Travis to help him while Logan returned to Louisiana to get proof of ownership.
Likeness of William Barrett Travis (supposedly)

7. Travis started spreading rumors that a large armed group of vigilantes was coming to free the slaves.
Bradburn had Travis and another attorney named Patrick Jack thrown into jail.
Jack’s Brother showed up with an small group of about 150 settlers demanding their freedom.

8. Bradburn said if they would leave, Travis and Jack would be released.
The settlers left but Bradburn lied and didn’t release them.
The settlers then gathered at Turtle Bayou just to the south of Anahuac.

9. Turtle Bayou Resolutions
There they pledged their allegiance to the constitution of 1824.
They also said their actions were against Bradburn, not Mexico.
This was called the Turtle Bayou Resolutions.

10. At Turtle Bayou, the settlers sent John Austin (may have been a relative of Stephen F.) to Brazoria to get a cannon and reinforcements. On his way back Mexican forces stopped them at Velasco.

11. Battle of Velasco
The two sides fought the brief Battle of Velasco. The Mexicans ran out of ammunition and had to surrender to the Texians. 10 Texians and 5 Mexicans were killed
The soldiers were ordered to return to Mexico and the Texians went to Anahauc.

12. When the settler army arrived at Anahauc they found that Bradburn had been fired and Travis and Jack were released. Tensions cooled off for a while.
Travis became a revolutionary celebrity.

13. The Texians call a convention
The Texians called a convention together in and 1833 to address grievances they still had with the Mexican Government.
In 1833 they held a convention in San Felipe and drafted a resolution to separate Texas from Coahuila.
They elected Stephen F. Austin to take the resolution to Mexico City.

14. Austin in Mexico
Austin arrived in Mexico City to find a chaotic scene.
Santa Anna was now president but had stepped aside to recover and rest from a “health problem” and let V.P. Valentin Gomez Farias run the country.
There was also a huge outbreak of cholera and an estimated 10,000 to 20,000 people died.

15. Austin had to wait over a month for Farias to reply to his request for an audience.
He grew impatient and wrote a letter back to Texas telling the convention they should arrange for a state government, with or without Mexico’s approval.
Valentin Gomez Farias

16. Austin finally got an audience with Santa Anna and the President agreed to the lift the immigration ban and to consider reforms in the administration of Texas.
Santa Anna did not agree however on separate statehood for Texas.

17. Austin thrown in Jail
On his way back to Texas, Austin was arrested in Saltillo, the capital of Coahuila y Texas.
His letter about separate statehood had been intercepted by the Mexican government.
Austin was escorted back to Mexico City where he was thrown in Jail, with no trial or bail.

18. Back in Texas…War or Peace?
After Austin’s arrest Texians became divided into two parties a “War Party” and a “Peace Party”
War Party: Wanted to fight for Independence from Mexico
Peace Party: Wanted diplomatic solution to problems with Mexico

19. Sam Houston comes to Texas
Born in Virginia, raised in Tennessee, he ran away in his teens to live with the Cherokee Indians who he adored.
Served in the Creek (Indian) Wars under Andrew Jackson where he almost died at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.
Afterwards became a protégé to Jackson

20. He resigned from office and spent time with the Cherokee again.
Sam Houston was elected to Congress and then served as the Governor of Tennessee in 1827
His young wife, Eliza Allen, left the Governor under mysterious circumstances which ended his political career in Tennessee.
He resigned from office and spent time with the Cherokee again.
Came to Texas in 1832 and immediately got involved in the “War Party”
Houston with the Cherokee
Houston later in life

21. Create a bubble chart
Create a bubble chart over the causes of the Texas Revolution. Use your notes!
Cause #2
Cause #1
Causes of the
Texas Revolution
Cause #3
Cause #4

22. Create a bubble chart Disturbances at Anahuac Law of April 6th
American Colonization of Mexican TX
Law of April 6th
Causes of the
Texas Revolution
Stephen F. Austin Arrest
States Rights/Self-Government