Ep. 34: Revolutionary Texas Government(s)-Organizing Chaos
Wise About Texas
Ken Wise
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2017
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
In the late 1820’s, the Mexican government assessed the conditions in Texas and decided to clamp down on anglo immigration and try to prevent too much revolutionary fervor. The American immigrants “traveled with their constitution in their pockets, always demanding their rights.” Mexican President Bustamante issued a decree in 1830 that prevented any further immigration from the United States. That did it. The citizens began meeting in consultations, councils and conventions but not everyone agreed on the goal. All they knew was they had to do something. No less than 6 different organizational meetings were held and the goals of each progressed toward revolution. Finally, in a convention at Washington on the Brazos in 1836, Texas declared independence. The rest is history–Texas history. Learn more about the various attempts to organize the revolution in the latest episode of Wise About Texas.
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| 0:00.0 | Howdy and welcome to Wise About Texas, the Texas History Podcast. This is your host Ken Wise and I want to thank you for tuning in for a little bit of Texas history |
| 0:18.1 | Man y'all really liked the last episode about the three Emmas if you haven't heard that episode I encourage everyone to go back and listen to it. |
| 0:25.5 | It was a it's just such a great story. There's a lot of holes in that story and often it raises more questions than answers, but I'd love if any of the listeners who've heard that |
| 0:36.2 | episode have any insight into that case from San Antonio in the early 1900s, I'd love to hear |
| 0:42.2 | from you about it. I've gotten some great |
| 0:44.1 | feedback on the story and a few details that I didn't know but I think it'd be |
| 0:48.8 | great if you go back and listen to that check it out it's a fun story. |
| 0:53.0 | Well it's a revolution time in Texas you know in Texas we consider the |
| 0:57.0 | springtime the anniversary of the events of the Texas Revolution culminating |
| 1:02.0 | with the Battle of San Jacino in April as the Texas High Holy Day. |
| 1:06.2 | So we're in that time period and there is no way you can write or talk about Texas history during this time without referring to the |
| 1:17.8 | events of the revolution. |
| 1:19.8 | So we are definitely going to talk a little bit about the revolution. |
| 1:23.9 | I titled this episode, |
| 1:26.0 | Revolutionary Texas Governments and Organizing Chaos. |
| 1:30.3 | And what I want to do today is look at some of the governments or governing bodies that formed during the time period of the Texas Revolution because the most common stories |
| 1:44.6 | that we talk about on these anniversaries are the Battle of the Alamo, |
| 1:48.6 | the Battle of San Jacinto, the Runaway Scrape, I think a very underrated battle in importance was |
| 1:56.8 | the Siege of Behar, which I covered in the first few episodes of this podcast. |
| 2:01.4 | But one thing that we don't talk about is what was |
| 2:04.4 | happening on the home front. Now there wasn't really a home front back then when |
| 2:08.6 | you're dealing with a revolution, especially in a place like 1830s Texas wasn't really a home front you were on the |
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