Lenin promised to give every citizen Peace Land and Bread by brining the ruler of Russia, promising to give them a better future than what Russia was already facing.
Stephen F Austin was arrested for inciting riots and encouraging the Texians to defy Spanish law. Austin had gone to Mexico to meet with Santa Anna to try to work out a solution to the main complaints that Texians had. However while in town, a group had a small skirmish with some Spanish soldiers. Austin was there and seen as the head man in charge and therefore placed under arrest for the actions of people hundreds of miles away.
At the time, more than 750,000 people were displaced and this caused a big refugee crisis due to the fact that the Palestinians were expelled from their homes and a lot of villages were left vacant.
It was a law mandating religious tolerance for Trinitarian Christians.