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The Texas Revolutionary Experience: A Political and Social History 1835–1836. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press. ISBN 0-89096-497-1. Manchaca, Martha (2001). Recovering History, Constructing Race: The Indian, Black, and White Roots of Mexican Americans. The Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art ...
In mid-March, the Consultation met and formed a provisional Texas government, headed by Henry Smith. The council promptly created a new regular army , to be headed by Sam Houston . Houston would be required to raise his army from scratch rather than take over the volunteer force already commanded by Austin .
The Convention of 1836 was the meeting of elected delegates in Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas in March 1836. The Texas Revolution had begun five months previously, and the interim government, known as the Consultation, had wavered over whether to declare independence from Mexico or pledge to uphold the repudiated Mexican Constitution of 1824.
The provisional government named him inspector general of the army in the Nacogdoches District. As a delegate from Nacogdoches to the Convention of 1836 , Rusk not only signed the Texas Declaration of Independence but also chaired the committee to revise the constitution of the Republic of Texas .
7 – The Consultation declares the right to form a new independent state and government as long as the 1824 Constitution of Mexico was not valid in Mexico. 14 – Henry Smith is named Governor. 14 – The new provisional government elects Austin, William H. Wharton and Branch T. Archer, to serve as commissioners to the United States.
Prior to Houston's entrance into the race, Stephen F. Austin considered himself to be the front-runner in the election to become the first president of Texas.His opponent in the race was Henry Smith, who had been governor of the Provisional Government and a delegate to the convention that declared the independence of the Republic of Texas.
Because of the activities of Mexican raiding vessels along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, the provisional government of Texas in the 1830s became acutely aware of the need for a navy. [2] On the day that Texas acquired the first ship to the purpose, Liberty , the General Council reported that they were being offered another, Invincible, which ...
In 1830, Sterling C. Robertson of the Texas Association, along with Alexander Thomson, Jr. [18] began recruiting settlers for the Texas colonization. The new Law of April 6, 1830, however, nullified the colonization contract with the Texas Association. Stephen F. Austin was able to get an exemption for his colony and that of Green DeWitt. [19]