Mexico's President Antonio López de Santa Anna…

Mexico's President Antonio López de Santa Anna begins a process of dissolving state legislatures, disarming state militias, and abolishing the Constitution of 1824 because of perceived troubles within the Mexican government in 1834.

To make matters worse, he imprisons some cotton plantation owners who refuse to raise their assigned crops, which the government intends not for export but for redistribution within Mexico.

Despite this, these actions trigger outrage throughout the nation of Mexico.

The country now becomes divided between Centralists, who back Santa Anna’s dictatorship, and Federalists, who want the Constitution of 1824 re-instituted.

Santa Anna now orders all illegal immigrant settlers out of Texas.

Much of Mexico, led by the states of Yucatan, Zacatecas, and Coahuila, promptly rises in revolt of Santa Anna's actions.

Santa Anna will spend the next two years suppressing the revolts.