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Statehood

Statehood. Warm-up : What are some of the issues the Republic of Texas faced? How could they solve them?. Nation divided. Sectionalism – excessive loyalty to a region or section, creating prejudice. 1836 – Texas was a slave-owning state and would tip the balance in Congress

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Statehood

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  1. Statehood Warm-up: What are some of the issues the Republic of Texas faced? How could they solve them?

  2. Nation divided • Sectionalism – excessive loyalty to a region or section, creating prejudice. • 1836 – Texas was a slave-owning state and would tip the balance in Congress • North – Against • South – For • West – Undecided, mostly territories

  3. Attempts at Annexation • 1836 – Texans vote for it/US turns them down • 1844 – The Republic and US Congress draft a treaty to make Texas a territory • Texans approve it • US denies it again

  4. Why not Texas? • U.S. would get public land to sell to pay off Texas’s huge debt • Would add Texas as a territory not a state • North does not want a slave state • Afraid of causing a war with Mexico • Wanted to avoid controversy with their constituents [voters back home]

  5. James Polk • Was elected the 11th U.S. president in 1844 • Wanted to annex Texas • Why?????? • Grow the US • Democrat from the South

  6. Annexation • Congress decided to pass a joint resolution [passed in both houses of congress] for annexation • Anson Jones and Texas legislature came up with state constitution and overwhelmingly voted for annexation • Oct. 13, 1845 the vote was 4,254 to 257

  7. In 1845 Mexico finally recoginizes Texas independence • France and Britain did not want the US to grow • Convinced Mexico to recognize that Texas was independent • Too late at that point, Texans just want annexation

  8. “ The Republic of Texas is No More” • On Feb. 19, 1846, at a ceremony in front of the Texas Capitol, Texas officially became a state • Anson Jones the last Texas President handed over Texas to the 1st governor J. Pinckney Henderson

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