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Chapter 10 Section 1, Political Unrest in Texas, P. 202
1. What did Haden Edwards discover when he arrived in the Nacogdoches area?
Mexican, Anglo, and Cherokee families had been living there for years, some families for
over a hundred years
2. The next year, what angered the settlers regarding Edwards? How did the Mexican
government respond to their anger? He demanded payment for land titles settlers
already had from the Mexican government and named his son-in-law the alcalde of the
settlement after a fraudulent election; The government canceled his empresario
contract
3. What action did Edwards take after Stephen F. Austin called out the militia? He and his
supporters ran away and the Republic of Fredonia collapsed
4. What caused the Mexican government to worry about the number of Americans in
Texas? Repeated offers from the U.S. government to buy Texas and the trouble stirred
up by American immigrants to Texas like Haden Edwards
5. What three things did Mier y Teran observe in his report? 1. Mexican influence in Texas
weakened as you went north and east 2) Americans outnumbered Tejanos 10 to 1
around Nacogdoches 3) American influence in Texas (especially East Texas) was growing
daily
6. What three recommendations did Mier y Teran make? 1) increase trade between Texas
and Mexico to weaken trading between Texas and the U.S. 2) send more soldiers to
Texas to keep order and increase Mexican control of the area 3) recruit more Mexican
and European settlers to weaken American influence
7. What was the goal of the Law of April 6, 1830? What steps did the Mexican
government take to accomplish this goal? To strictly control the American presence in
Texas; 1) banned U.S. immigration to Texas 2) banned slave transportation to Texas 3)
suspended American empresario contracts except those of SFA and Green DeWitt 4)
built forts and government offices along the Texas-U.S. border
8. Besides stopping American immigration, The Law also began to do what? What two
purposes did this serve? Began to tax all U.S. imports to Texas (customs duties); raised
money for the government and encouraged trade between Texas and Mexico because
U.S. good were now more expensive
Chapter 10 Section 2, Tensions Grow, P. 207
1. What was the disagreement at Anahuac between Colonel Juan Davis Bradburn and
Francisco Madero? Bradburn believed that Madero was violating Mexican law by issuing
land titles for land along the coast
2. What three actions by Bradburn angered Texans in the area?
 Arresting Madero and throwing him in jail
 Disbanded the government in the town of Liberty
 Bradburn used other settlers’ slaves for town projects without paying settlers
3. What action did George Fisher take that increased tensions in Anahuac? He demanded
that all ships landing in Texas pay their customs duties at Anahuac as opposed to paying
the duties at the port where they arrived
4. What did William B. Travis and Patrick Jack do to raise the tensions even higher in
Anahuac? They began to antagonize and intimidate Bradburn, organized a militia
without Bradburn’s permission, and told Bradburn that U.S. troops from Louisiana were
going to attack Texas
5. What actions did angry Texans take after the arrest of Travis and Jack? A force of
about 150 settlers surrounded Bradburn and his men in the fort at Anahuac; shots were
exchanged and men were captured on both sides
6. After Bradburn refused to release Patrick and Jack, what did the angry settlers do?
They regrouped near Turtle Bayou; John Austin was sent to retrieve some cannons that
were in Brazoria in case Bradburn attacked; while Austin was gone, the settlers who
stayed behind at Turtle Bayou wrote up the Turtle Bayou Resolutions (a pledge of
loyalty to Mexico)