MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
THE MEXICAN AMERICAN WAR
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It would cause the free states to gain more votes in Congress
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This would be a cause to the Civil War over slavery
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It would cause the slave states to gain more votes in Congress
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It would lead to the Mexican American 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: -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-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.
Detailed explanation-4: -How would the addition of Texas as a slave state affect the Union? Texas would tip the balance in Congress in favor of slave states, thus allowing pro-slavery laws to be enacted.