MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
THE MEXICAN AMERICAN WAR
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Because Texas had slavery, it would mean more slave states than free states in the U.S.
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Texas would have to free all of their slaves and there was nowhere for them to go.
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There were too many free states in the United States.
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They were worried about losing all of the slaves to Mexico.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -But the main opposition was found in the US. The issue of slavery was central to their concerns – as it was with so many political issues in the US at the time. There had been little question that if Texas joined the U.S., it would join as a slave state. Slavery was widespread in the Republic of Texas.
Detailed explanation-3: -Settlements grew and developed more land under cultivation in cotton and other commodities. The cotton industry flourished in East Texas, where enslaved labor became most widely used.
Detailed explanation-4: -Texas entered the nation as a state that legalized slavery, and seceded from it 15 years later as part of the Confederate States of America. Shortly after the elction of Abraham Lincoln, the confederacy seceded from the United States to continue enslaving people of African descent.