MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
TEXAS ANNEXATION PROBLEM
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It would End slavery in the US
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It would Destroy the US economy
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It would upset the equal number of Slave and Free
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It would Cause a war
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Detailed explanation-1: -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).
Detailed explanation-2: -Texas borrowed a lot of money to pay for the Revolution. The Republic also had created more debt with worthless money! If annexed, the U.S. would have to take on that debt! Until Texas could pay the U.S. (and the other countries) the money it owed, the U.S. did not want to make Texas a state.
Detailed explanation-3: -In the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the United States gained California, Arizona, New Mexico, and the Rio Grande boundary for Texas, as well as portions of Utah, Nevada, and Colorado. Because of Texas annexation, America ended up gaining a huge expansion of territory. The United States was now a true world power.
Detailed explanation-4: -The formal controversy over the legality of the annexation of Texas stems from the fact that Congress approved the annexation of Texas as a state, rather than a territory, with simple majorities in each house, instead of annexing the land by Senate treaty, as was done with Native American lands.