Traditional Muzzleloading Association
The Center of Camp => People of the Times => Topic started by: Craig Tx on April 06, 2021, 02:42:25 PM
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On this day in 1830, the Mexican government passed a law that helped foment the Texas Revolution.
The law is said to be analogous to the Stamp Act, which encouraged the American Revolution. Among its provisions, it forbade the further introduction of slaves into Mexico, and apparently was intended to suspend existing empresario contracts. Article 11, the most inflammatory part, was intended to prohibit or limit immigration from the United States. Texas colonists were greatly disturbed by news of the law. Although Stephen F. Austin secured exemption from the operation of the law for his contract and for that of Green DeWitt, the measure shook his belief in the good will of the Mexican government. Enforcement of the law resulted directly in the Anahuac Disturbances of 1832 and indirectly in the battle of Velasco, the conventions of 1832 and 1833, and the accumulation of grievances that helped lead to the revolution.
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All should know of Santa Anna’s riding roughshod over the Mexican constitution of 1824 then repealing it. The result was a revolution by Hispanic Mexicans as well as the colonists from the US who followed immigration laws and became Mexican citizens.
https://www.andrews.edu/~rwright/Oldwww/Alamo/revolution.html
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Absolutely! What was a fight to restore the Constitution of 1824 turned into a fight for independence. What most folk don't realize is it wasn't just the Anglos. It was the native Hispanics as well that were fighting as well, both for the Constitution of 1824, and later independence.