MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
TEXAS ANNEXATION PROBLEM
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Question
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Annexation would likely start a war between the United States and Mexico.
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The United States did not recognize the independence of the Texas Republic.
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Annexation would raise problems with slaveholders in the United States.
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The United States had laws forbidding any slavery state to be admitted.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The primary reason the U.S. did not want to annex Texas in 1837 was because annexation would likely start a war with Mexico. In 1845, many Mexicans were unhappy about the annexation of Texas by the United States. The root cause of the war was that Mexico and the U.S. could not agree on the Texas-Mexico border.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -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-4: -Many Americans also feared that annexation would lead to war with Mexico. it upheld the balance between slave and free states, avoided the expansion of slavery, and avoided war with Mexico.
Detailed explanation-5: -Politics in the United States fractured over the issue of whether Texas should be admitted as a slave or free state. 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).