-dissatisfaction in California particularly turns into holding of Consultation by various representatives in 1861, sends petition for representative govt to governor

-refused, and before they can meet for further action, US-sponsored filibuster happens

-results in Spain panicking and refusing to allow Consultation to meet

-attempts to organize shadow meeting also fails because Hispanics of similar social classes refuse it

-but Spanish attempts to suppress liberalism, growing sentiments for elective institutions result in growing talk across Spanish Empire

-their establishment of very mediocre oligarchical councils don't help at all

-in reaction to rebellion after Country folders/Buenaventura/Mineral rushes > Washoe Silver Rush (1861), another Consultation emerges from SF in 1863, talks of holding national junta to send a petition and refuses all annexationism

-runaway effect, Consultations held across Internal Provinces and, to a lesser extent, Mexico, to elect delegates from towns to a junta

-in 1864, a General Junta of the Internal Provinces is held with reps from towns across it

-Spain tries to suppress it, stop it from organizing

-when junta meets, declares the independence of the Internal Provinces as the "United Provinces of Buenaventura", at this point still nominally in personal union with Spain

-in hopes war could be avoided, they don't tear personal union, doesn't work though

-Spain badly stressed by multiple revolts across the empire, still a fairly long fight due to the difficulties of unity

-SF falls fairly quickly to local revolutionaries, as do many Texan towns

-but Spanish naval superiority means SF falls, and a charge at Galveston is unthinkable

-nevertheless, a lot of dissent in SF and Oakland is under rebel control

-a lot of unofficial American support from the North, while the South regards antislavery nature of rebellion esp. in Texas unthinkably vile

-including massive numbers of northern American volunteers

-an attempt is made to launch a filibuster from Port Townsend to take SF, but it's easily beaten back and the US charges them with violating the Neutrality Act

-many rebels (mostly Irish) in Texas hate plantation system because it is something they can't compete with, they help destroy it and slaves escape into rebel lines in large numbers

-furthermore, escapees from Orleans flee into rebel lines as well, stoking fears

-eventually, core of rebellion moves into interior, as revolutionaries oust Spanish from Santa Fe and National Junta is headquartered there

-but with it being clear that rebellion creeping towards the coasts, plantation economy in Texas being blown up by slave escapes, and other rebellion in more critical parts of the Spanish Empire, Spain decides to cut its losses and recognize the independence of Buenaventura as a republic

-because this rebellion is anti-slavery it divides opinion in the US, northerners like it for being American inspired and southerners hate it for abolishing slavery, it increases sectional tensions massively and causes Liberty and Union War (1868-76) to break out in 1868