After Texas gaining their independence from Mexico. Texas asked the US to annex them thus entering the union as a slave state.
Well no one really knows the correct answer because all documentation of the annexation of Texas Was lost in a tragic fire which killed approximately 40 people.
Southerners favored the annexation of Texas, but Northerners objected that Texas would add another slave state to the Union.
If the state was brought into the union it would upset the balance of free and slave states.
Texas practiced slavery, and the US already had adequate problems maintaing a balance between the north and the south on that issue. Texas had made an effort to go it alone as a Republic, but it lacked recognition by most of the world and had created an enormous burden of debt. Texas needed a handout in a big way.
it was a result of a war between Spain and America
The annexation of Texas as a US state in 1846 directly led to the war, but US ambitions toward the Mexican lands in the West were the driving force for the conflict.
The annexation of Texas.
There was no VP when Congress and the President approved the annexation of Texas, but when the Texas legislature accepted the resolution, George Dallas was the VP.
Border disputes and the US Annexation of the Republic of Texas as a US State.
Texas became apat of the US by annexation or possibably bought by Mexico
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The border conflicts between Texas and Mexico were now Intenational Border conflicts between the US and Mexico.
He supported the annexation of Mexican Texas.
He did attack,
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The US annexation of Texas.