MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
TEXAS ANNEXATION PROBLEM
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have more power and pay off its debt.
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find more land for Freedmen to work.
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find Waldo.
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find more land for industry.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Texas relinquished 67 million acres in the Compromise of 1850 in exchange for a cash payment that wiped out the debt. Future land sales were earmarked to fund Texas education. But sales proved to be disappointing.
Detailed explanation-2: -Annexation was approved by the Texas and U.S. congresses in 1845, and the transfer of authority from the republic to the state of Texas took place in 1846. One unique feature of the annexation agreements was a provision permitting Texas to retain title to its public lands.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Under the terms of the treaty, Mexico ceded to the United States approximately 525, 000 square miles (55% of its prewar territory) in exchange for a $15 million lump sum payment, and the assumption by the U.S. Government of up to $3.25 million worth of debts owed by Mexico to U.S. citizens.