MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
TEXAS ANNEXATION PROBLEM
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Twenty years; Four presidents
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Ten years; One president
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Ten years; Five presidents
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Six months after the congress of the Republic of Texas accepts U.S. annexation, Texas is admitted into the United States as the 28th state.
Detailed explanation-2: -They won that independence in 1836 at the end of the Texas Revolution. After winning independence, Texans voted to apply for annexation to the United States. President Andrew Jackson deferred to Congress, which did not want to annex Texas because the issue of slavery in the West was too controversial.
Detailed explanation-3: -Texas was annexed by the United States in 1845 and became the 28th state. Until 1836, Texas had been part of Mexico, but in that year a group of settlers from the United States who lived in Mexican Texas declared independence.
Detailed explanation-4: -On December 27, 1845, U.S. President James K. Polk signed the annexation bill into law and formally recognized Texas as the 28th state of the Union.