Important stuff Flashcards
Coahuila
Coahuila y Tejas, officially the Estado Libre y Soberano de Coahuila y Tejas, was one of the constituent states of the newly established United Mexican States under its 1824 Constitution. In 1726, Fernando Pérez de Almazán carried out the administrative separation of Coahuila and Texas, establishing Villa de los Adaes as the first capital of Texas and Monclova as the capital of Coahuila. The state of Coahuila and the former Spanish province of Texas were combined as the state of Coahuila and Texas. The legislature for the new state was organized at Saltillo in August 1824, with the Baron de Bastrop representing Texas. Both Coahuila and Texas seceded from Mexico because of Antonio López de Santa Anna’s attempts to centralize the government. Texas eventually became the independent Republic of Texas, which in 1845 became a state of the United States of America.
Mexican federal constitution
The Federal Constitution of the United Mexican States of 1824 was enacted on October 4 of 1824, after the overthrow of the Mexican Empire of Agustin de Iturbide.
In the name of almighty God, supreme author and legislator of society. The general constituent congress of the Mexican nation in discharge of the duties imposed upon it by its constituents in order to fix their political independence, to establish and consolidate their liberty and to promote their prosperity and glory decree as follows:
Introduction of the constitution addressing the country of Mexico, the land, and the religion of Mexico.
The religion of the Mexican nation shall perpetually remain Roman Catholic and Apostolic. The nation protects it by wise and just laws and prohibits the exercise of any other.
Would Anglos like it?
No! Because not all people would want to switch to another religion.
The legislative power of the nation is confided to a General Congress, which is divided into two chambers, one for the Deputies, and the other for the Senators.
Would Anglos like it?
Yes! They always favor American government.
The supreme executive power is entrusted to a single individual, who shall be styled President of the United Mexican States.
Would Anglos like it?
Yes! Once again, American government.
The government of each state shall be divided into three powers, the legislative, executive, and judicial, and two or more of these can never be united in the same person or corporation, nor can the legislative power be vested in a single individual.
Would Anglos like this?
Yes! Once branch/individual does not become too powerful. This is similar to the US and the government there.
Filibusters
foreign military men who committed treasonous acts within Spanish Texas in early 1800’s
Hacienda
a large estate or plantation with a dwelling house
Mexican Revolution
Spanish rule in Texas had always been somewhat tenuous. By around 1716, Spain had established a thin line of missions and forts on which they based their claim to the territory. Nonetheless, the Spanish were never able to establish a true colony in Texas. The native people were hostile to Europeans, the land and climate harsh and extreme, and the distances vast. With many other large colonies to govern and beset with internal problems in the mother country and a changing world scene, Spain was unable to make Texas more than a remote outpost of its empire.
As the 1800s began, the Spanish had a rival for Texas–the fledgling United States. After the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, Thomas Jefferson himself asserted that the true southern limit of Louisiana was the Rio Grande, and many Americans agreed. The Spanish could do little to stop a slow but steady trickle of adventurers, traders, outlaws, and even a few settlers crossing the Red River. Soldiers of fortune, called filibusters, fomented intrigue with Mexican revolutionaries and hatched schemes of personal empire.
lara
One of Hidalgo’s supporters, Bernardo Gutierrez de Lara continued to fight against Spain’s rule by invading Texas. Bernardo Gutierrez de Lara began recruiting soldiers, including Augustus Magee to help free Texas from Spain’s rule. Gutierrez and Magee planned to establish a government in which voters would choose their Representatives, called a Republic….therefore their Army was called:
The Republican Army of the North.
August 1812—captured Nacogdoches. November 1812—captured Goliad. March 1813—captured San Antonio.
Spain surrendered…. The Republican Army of the North declared
Texas Independent!
median
August 1813 the Republican Army fought in the Battle of Medina near San Antonio; Spain defeated the Republican Army killing most troops, those that surrendered were executed, but a few escaped by fleeing to the US. Anyone Spain suspected of helping the Republican Army was executed or forced to leave Texas. Many people fled from the towns of Goliad and Nacogdoches
hidalgo
Francisco Hidalgo, a Spanish priest of the Franciscan order of Roman Catholicism, was a missionary to the American Indians in what are now northern Mexico and East Texas. His efforts helped lead to the long Spanish occupation of Texas.
