MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
TEXAS ANNEXATION PROBLEM
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They did not trust Sam Houston to be involved as a national leader.
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They feared it would benefit southern slaveholders and might cause war with Mexico
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They did not want to become involved in the Texans’ dispute with the Comanche.
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They did not want the Panic of 1837 that occurred in Texas to spread to the rest of the country.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Slavery and Cotton. The question of whether or not the United States should annex Texas came at a time of increased tensions between the Northern and Southern states of the Union over the legality and morality of slavery; thus the possibility of admitting Texas as another slave state proved to be contentious.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -By 1830, there were 7, 000 settlers from the United States living in Mexican Texas. But tensions between the Mexican government and settlers from the United States grew as Mexico unsuccessfully attempted to halt further immigration and settlers pushed back against Mexican legal codes.