MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
THE MEXICAN AMERICAN WAR
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did not want to redraw maps
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did not wish to anger Mexico
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did not find Texas to have valuable resources
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did not think the Treaty of Velasco was legal
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Detailed explanation-1: -Why did the United States delay the recognition of Texas for almost a year? Texas still made slavery, legal, so it made the U.S. reluctant to annex Texas. Northern American politics were against ANYTHING that will encourage slavery.
Detailed explanation-2: -Mexico also feared a domino effect-that giving up Texas would lead to the loss of their other northern territories. Many Mexicans also distrusted the other powers involved in the Texas dispute.
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: -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.