MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
MANIFEST DESTINY
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Texas owed a tremendous amount of money and there was worry that, should Texas become a state, the United States could not afford to pay the debts.
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Most Americans feared that bringing Texas into the Union would upset favorable trade relations with Mexico.
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There was concern that Texas would enter the United States as a slave state and upset the balance between free and slave states.
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Sam Houston had a poor reputation in Washington, D.C. and was not able to have his case for annexation heard.
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Detailed explanation-1: -What caused the initial resistance to the annexation of Texas by the United States? Texas owed a tremendous amount of money and there was worry that, should Texas become a state, the United States could not afford to pay the debts.
Detailed explanation-2: -One reason that some people did not want to annex Texas as a state was the issue of slavery. Texas was a slave state and would have tipped the balance between the free states and slave states toward slavery. A second issue with making Texas a state was the worry that doing so would incite war with Mexico.
Detailed explanation-3: -Politics in the United States fractured over the issue of whether Texas should be admitted as a slave or free state. In the end, Texas was admitted to the United States a slave state. The annexation of Texas contributed to the coming of the Mexican-American War (1846-1848).