In a remarkable coup, President Santa Anna deposes his Vice-president, declares himself Dictator of Mexico, and ultimately suspends the democratic Mexican Constitution of 1824.
Settlers in Tejas view the situation with concern and resentment. Their growing list of grievances include living under a dictatorship; the suspension of the democratic Constitution of 1824; the denial of state-level autonomy for Texas; the emancipation of slaves; and the imprisonment of Stephen F. Austin Austin as ample justifications for a revolution and Independence.