Annexation of Texas to the U.S.
*U.S. President James K. Polk supported Texas becoming a part of the U.S. because of the American idea of manifest destiny – belief that
the U.S. should stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific
*There was concern about adding another slave state to the U.S.
* Texas Congress voted to accept the offer of statehood
*Texas became a state on December 29, 1845
*This caused the Mexican War because Texas and the United States said that the boundary of Texas was the Rio Grande, and Mexico said it was the Nueces River
*There was concern about adding another slave state to the U.S.
* Texas Congress voted to accept the offer of statehood
*Texas became a state on December 29, 1845
*This caused the Mexican War because Texas and the United States said that the boundary of Texas was the Rio Grande, and Mexico said it was the Nueces River