1. Mexican Independence/Texas Filibusters
Filibusters, Mexican Federal Constitution of 1824 & Slavery

2. What is a Filibuster?
Filibuster: A person who wages an unofficial war on a country.
They acted for their own benefits and did not carry out the plan of any government.

3. Significant Filibusters
Phillip Nolan– from the U.S. and was sent to Texas with Spanish approval. Spain became suspicious of his activities (creating maps) and killed him.
Jose Bernardo Gutierrez (Jose Gutierrez de Lara)- first Governor of Mexican Texas
Augustus Magee
Dr. James Long
Jose Gutierrez de Lara-

4. Gutierrez-Magee Expedition
Jose Bernardo Gutierrez (first Governor of Mexican Texas) and Augustus Magee organized the Republic of the north and proclaimed Texas free from Spain, but were defeated. Expedition encouraged others.

5. Long Expedition
Dr. James Long led a group from Mississippi to Nacogdoches & declared Texas independent from Spain. Murdered in Mexico City.

6. Battle of Medina
Fought August 18, 1813, along the Medina River south of San Antonio between Gutierrez-Magee expedition and Spanish royalist army.
Republican army lost, but it encouraged others to enter the revolution.

7. Mexican Federal Constitution of 1824
Written after Mexico’s independence from Spain
The republic took the name of United Mexican States, and was defined as a representative federal republic with Catholicism as the official religion.
Created the state of Coahuila y Tejas, merging the two provinces.

8. State Colonization Law of 1825
Set the guidelines to the colonization of Coahuila y Texas
Allowed Stephen F. Austin & other empresarios to receive land grants in Texas

9. Spanish Purpose (why did they do it) To lay claim to Texas
Secure Spanish control in the New World
Method (how did they do it)
Missions, presidios, and civil settlements
Resettled other Spanish colonist

10. Mexican Purpose (why did they do it)
Economic opportunities-large ranches and small businesses
Method (how did they do it)
Civil settlements
Empresario grants
Increase population in Northern Mexico
Support towns already in the area

11. Anglo Purpose (how did they do it)
Economic opportunities- large farms to grow cash crops and small businesses
New start
Escape debt
Method (how did they do it)
Empresario grants
Increase population
Settled in northern Texas

12. Slavery in Texas
1821- Can bring slaves to Texas; Free Blacks are citizens & can own land
1823- Sale or purchase of slaves forbidden. Offspring of slaves were freed at 14
1827- Introduction of new slaves outlawed. Offspring of slaves free at birth
Slavery abolished (ended) in Mexico
1830- importation of slaves outlawed in Texas