MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
TEXAS ANNEXATION PROBLEM
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Slavery
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Immigration
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Annexation
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Debts
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Texas annexation was the 1845 annexation of the Republic of Texas into the United States. Texas was admitted to the Union as the 28th state on December 29, 1845.
Detailed explanation-2: -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). The conflict started, in part, over a disagreement about which river was Mexico’s true northern border: the Nueces or the Rio Grande.
Detailed explanation-3: -These events brought within the control of the United States the future states of Texas, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Washington, and Oregon, as well as portions of what would later become Oklahoma, Colorado, Kansas, Wyoming, and Montana.
Detailed explanation-4: -Texas President Mirabeau B. Lamar (1838–41) opposed annexation. He held visions of empire in which Texas would rival the United States for supremacy on the North American continent.