JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
AGE OF THE COMMON MAN
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Question
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It would upset the balance in Congress
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Texas was too large
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It would create issues with Spain
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He disliked Sam Houston
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Detailed explanation-1: -President Andrew Jackson, concerned that the annexation of Texas might mean war with Mexico and knowing it would upset the sectional balance between free and slave states, merely extended diplomatic recognition to the new republic on March 3, 1837.
Detailed explanation-2: -The leadership of both major U.S. political parties, the Democrats and the Whigs, opposed the introduction of Texas, a vast slave-holding region, into the volatile political climate of the pro-and anti-slavery sectional controversies in Congress.
Detailed explanation-3: -President Andrew Jackson deferred to Congress, which did not want to annex Texas because the issue of slavery in the West was too controversial. President Martin Van Buren, Jackson’s successor, also did not want to annex Texas. Van Buren and other Americans feared that annexing Texas would start a war with Mexico.
Detailed explanation-4: -Following Texas’ successful war of independence against Mexico in 1836, President Martin van Buren refrained from annexing Texas after the Mexicans threatened war.