MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
TEXAS ANNEXATION PROBLEM
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That was the day Texas was annexed and became the 28th state in the United States of America.
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That was the day Mexican forces defeated Texas forces at the Rio Grande.
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Great Britain had finally taken Texas as a protectorate.
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That was the day that Texas became known as Coahuila y Tejas.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Anson Jones say, “The Republic of Texas is no more.” on Feb. 19th, 1846? That was the day Texas was annexed and became the 28th state in the United States of America.
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: -Jones believed that the prospects for annexation were dim, and that independence as part a British-French alliance offered the best prospects for peace with Mexico and prosperity for Texas.
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.
Detailed explanation-5: -Among Anglo-American colonists and Tejanos alike, the call for Texas independence grew louder. On March 2, 1836, a delegation at Washington-on-the-Brazos adopted the Texas Declaration of Independence, and thus was born the Republic of Texas.