15 Facts About Texas annexation

Texas annexation was the 1845 annexation of the Republic of Texas into the United States.

The boundaries of Texas annexation were determined within the larger geostrategic struggle to demark the limits of the United States' extensive western lands and of Spain's vast possessions in North America.

Nonetheless, Texas annexation remained an object of fervent interest to American expansionists, among them Thomas Jefferson, who anticipated the eventual acquisition of its fertile lands.

Mexican authorities, perceiving that they were losing control over Texas annexation and alarmed by the unsuccessful Fredonian Rebellion of 1826, abandoned the policy of benign rule.

Anglo-American immigrants residing in newly independent Texas overwhelmingly desired immediate annexation by the United States.

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Texas annexation's investigations, including personal interviews with Lord Aberdeen, concluded that British interest in abolitionist intrigues was weak, contradicting Secretary of State Upshur's conviction that Great Britain was manipulating Texas.

Texas annexation officials were at the moment deeply engaged in exploring settlements with Mexican diplomats, facilitated by Great Britain.

Texas annexation envisioned Texas as a corridor through which both free and enslaved African-Americans could be "diffused" southward in a gradual exodus that would ultimately supply labor to the Central American tropics, and in time, empty the United States of its slave population.

The Texas annexation "escape route" conceived by Walker promised to increase demand for slaves in fertile cotton-growing regions of Texas annexation, as well as the monetary value of slaves.

Texas annexation included the Packenham Letter with the Tyler bill, intending to create a sense of crisis in Southern Democrats.

The issue was a critical one, as the size of Texas annexation would be immensely increased if the international border were set at the Rio Grande River, with its headwaters in the Rocky Mountains, rather than the traditionally recognized boundary at the Nueces River, 100 miles to the north.

Senate and House legislators who had favored Benton's renegotiated version of the Texas annexation bill had been assured that President Tyler would sign the joint house measure, but leave its implementation to the incoming Polk administration.

Tyler justified his preemptive move on the grounds that Polk was likely to come under pressure to abandon immediate Texas annexation and reopen negotiations under the Benton alternative.

Texas annexation claimed the Rio Grande as its border based on the Treaties of Velasco, while Mexico maintained that it was the Nueces River and did not recognize Texan independence.

The success of the joint house Texas annexation set a precedent that would be applied to Hawaii's annexation in 1897.