MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
TEXAS ANNEXATION PROBLEM
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Question
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they fought hard to make Texas independent.
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it would increase the slave states over free states.
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Southern politician would have more power to make slave laws in Congress.
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it would start war with Mexico.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Constitutional scruples and fear of war with Mexico were the reasons given for the rejection, but antislavery sentiment in the United States undoubtedly influenced Van Buren and continued to be the chief obstacle to annexation. Texas withdrew the annexation offer in 1838; President Mirabeau B.
Detailed explanation-2: -Answer and Explanation: Some Americans opposed the annexation of Texas because of its implications for the balance of power between free states and slave states in the United States Congress. Starting at least in the 1820s, the issue of slavery increasingly important in American politics.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.