Transcript End of Spanish Rule

End of Spanish Rule
Unrest Grows in Texas
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Hidalgo Calls For Independence
►Mexicans
became unhappy
with Spanish rule.
►Spain increased Mexican
taxes to help pay for wars in
Europe.
►Sept.
16, 1810 Father Miguel
Hidalgo y Costilla called for
Mexican independence.
Gutierrez-Magee Expedition
►Bernardo
Gutierrez de Lara, a
Hidalgo supporter, went to the
United States for money and
supplies.
►Gutierrez recruited soldiers to
help in the liberation, or freeing,
of Texas.
Republican Army of North Texas
►In 1812, the Gutierrez-Magee
army including Tejanos, Native
Americans, and Anglo Americans
captured Nacogdoches.
►The Republican Army gained
control of San Antonio.
►They issued a declaration of
independence for Texas.
Disagreements and Defeats
►The
Americans and Mexicans quarreled
over the new government for Texas.
►Americans favored a government with
elected officials, like that of the US.
►Mexicans preferred a government with
appointed officials, like that of New
Spain.
►Americans pushed for Texas to either
be independent or join the United
States.
Disagreements and Defeats
►The
Republican army fought it’s last battle
near Medina River.
►Most of the troops were killed on the
battlefield.
►Others surrendered and were executed.
►Few survived and made their way back to
the United States.
Revolutionaries and Pirates
► Survivors
of the Gutierrez-Magee expedition set
a base for operations on Galveston Island.
► This was an ideal base against the Spanish fleet
sailing the Gulf of Mexico.
► French pirate, Louis Michel Aury, was appointed
as commander of Galveston.
► Aury transported an expedition of rebel troops
along the Mexican coast and returned to find
Galveston under the control of another pirate
Jean Laffite.
Spain Exiles French Colonists
►French
colonists tried to settle on the
Trinity River.
►They built 2 small forts.
►The Spanish governor in Texas sent
troops to remove the colonists.
►The colony was abandoned in 1818.
James Long Invades Texas
►James
Long objected to the United States
surrendering its claim to Texas.
►Long invaded Texas and captured
Nacogdoches.
►His followers declared Texas was free and
an independent republic, and that Long
was the president.
►Later Long was captured and taken to
Mexico City where he was killed by a
guard.