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	Annexation - Celebrating 150 Years of Texas Statehood
		Texas’ first popularly elected President, Sam Houston, the victor of San Jacinto, had in his Tennessee youth been a protégé of Andrew Jackson, who in 1836 was closing down his eight-year tenure in the White House.
		Compromising none of its independent posture, Texas negotiated a treaty that provided for the United States to take possession of her debts and her public domain, and admit her as a territory, with individual states to be excised and admitted as they qualified for admission.
		Texas’ retention of her public domain allowed her to stake thousands of small homesteaders with pre-emption grants, construct a web of internal improvements (largely railroads), build the largest of all state capitols, fund public schools, and endow a state university system.
	www.humanities-interactive.org /texas/annexation/annex_essay.htm (2796 words)

	Reminiscences of the Republic 3
		Texas was becoming so prosperous its capacity for self government established---its foreign relations so friendly and advantageous---peace with Mexico in prospect with certainty of speedy accomplishment they who had before spurned Texas might now well fear that the next refusal would come from this side of the Sabine, and the refusal would be final.
		In Texas at that day when the masses of the people were as intelligent, as high toned, as zealous, as patriotic as gentlemen of the class commonly considered leaders of public opinion, it was a matter of course that the falsehoods and suspicions adverted to should tell on the masses of our people.
		When the decision of the people was clear for annexation and its accomplishment a foregone conclusion, he squrely took ground in its favor and voted for it, on the avowed reason that in an irreversible act he would not in sentiment be separated from his own people.
	www.tamu.edu /ccbn/dewitt/smithasbel3.htm (5467 words)

	Still true today: 'The Republic of Texas is no more'
		The annexation proposal was submitted to the people of Texas and ratified by an overwhelming majority on Oct. 13, 1845.
		Texas' annexation marked the first time in history that a sovereign nation voluntarily relinquished its sovereignty and became a part of another nation.
		Since Texas asked to join the Union, and the people voted for annexation, Texas cannot argue that the annexation was illegal.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/editorial/97/05/01/brock.0-1.html (847 words)

	The Avalon Project : Texas From Independence to Annexation 1836-1846 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Treaty of Annexation - April 12, 1844
		Joint Resolution of the Congress of Texas, June 23, 1845
		Ordinance of the Convention of Texas, July 4, 1845
	www.yale.edu /lawweb/avalon/texmenu.htm (91 words)

	Reminiscences of the Republic
		The annexation of Texas, from its first agitation commencing immediately after the victory of San Jacinto until its final accomplishment, was the subject for a while of absorbing national interest.
		To the slave-holding states the incorporation of Texas into the American union commended itself as a means of restoring for a time at least their equality with the non slaveholding states in political power in the American congress.
		Not only did Texas by annexation bring an imperial domain as an accession to the already vast American republic, it was also the sole occasion of the war with Mexico; a war which resulted in the further acquisition of the great south-western Pacific ocean regions, California and adjacent territories.
	www.tamu.edu /ccbn/dewitt/smithasbel1.htm (5414 words)

	Legislative Update
		The primary stumbling block to Texas' annexation by the U.S. was that the act was almost certain to provoke war with Mexico, an eventuality which came to pass with the outbreak of the Mexican-American War in 1846.
		Not only would the annexation of Texas add another slave state to the U.S., but that state would be a vast chunk of territory - nearly four times as large as the then-largest state, Missouri - which would extend the slaveholding portion of the U.S. far beyond its current western boundary.
		Texas was officially admitted to the Union when President James K. Polk signed the Joint Resolution to Admit Texas as a State on 29 December 1845.
	www.tmra2.org /webblog/2004/11/texas.html (772 words)

	Texas Annexation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Texas Annexation of 1845 was the voluntary annexation of the Republic of Texas by the United States of America as Texas, the 28th state, and additional land that later became major parts of the states of New Mexico and Colorado, where the headwaters of the Rio Grande exist in the San Juan Mountains.
		A factor, always in the background, during the Texas Annexation discussions in the United States was the realization of the northern states that the slave states would gain the representation of two new Senators when Texas was admitted as a slave state.
		Discourse on Slavery and the Annexation of Texas
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Texas_Annexation (765 words)

	Republic of Texas Summary
		Its southern and western-most boundary with Mexico was under dispute throughout the lifetime of the Republic, with Texas claiming that the boundary was the Rio Grande and Mexico claiming the Nueces River as the boundary.
		Texas claimed the Rio Grande as its southern and western limit, according to the Treaties of Velasco of May 1836.
		All the Mexican states that revolted, including Texas, were upset with Santa Anna over the abolishing of the Mexican Constitution of 1824, dissolving the Mexican Congress and changing the structure of the Mexican government from a federal one to a centralized one.
	www.bookrags.com /Republic_of_Texas (2630 words)

	Republic of Texas Archives 1998
		The reason that the legality of the Annexation of Texas was not a question in Texas v.
		After passing the resolution, the United States declared that Texas was a "State of the Union." This was an unlawful, fraudulent process which has been questioned since it was done, but the United States has failed at every turn to answer the questions regarding the unlawful process it used to acquire Texas.
		Texas was NOT annexed to the United States as a State by proper lawful action.
	www.republic-of-texas.net /archive1998/rt-pr-050498.shtml (951 words)

	Narrative History of Texas Annexation - Texas State Library
		The proposed Annexation Ordinance and State Constitution were approved by the Texas voters and submitted to the United States Congress.
		The United States House and Senate, in turn, accepted the Texas state constitution in a Joint Resolution to Admit Texas as a State which was signed by the president on December 29, 1845.
		Opposition to Texas' admission to the United States was particularly strong in the North during this period.
	www.tsl.state.tx.us /ref/abouttx/annexation (374 words)

	Dialogue: Laning - Enloe
		Texas came into the Union of its own accord as stated by the will of the voters and the legislature.
		The reason for this is that the Treaty of Annexation as presented to the Senate of the United States in June of 1844 was defeated by a vote of 35 to 16 so there was no treaty to sign.
		In his letter to Minister Van Zandt of Texas in 1844, the United States Secretary of State, Upshur, stated that the proper form to accomplish the annexation was a treaty.
	texasrepublic.org /laning.htm (1219 words)

	City of Austin - Annexation
		The area covers approximately 227 acres and is bounded on the north by the Robert Dillard tract and the Anderson tract (on the portion of the annexation area east of Manchaca Road) and Slaughter Creek (on the portion of the annexation area on the west side of Manchaca Road).
		It is bounded on the south by Chappell Lane (on the portion of the annexation area east of Manchaca Road) and the existing City limits (on the portion of the annexation area west of Manchaca Road).
		The annexation area is described by metes and bounds in Exhibit A which is attached to this Plan and to the annexation ordinance of which this Plan is a part.
	www.ci.austin.tx.us /annexation/canterbury_fsplan.htm (2835 words)

	Texas the Great State
		In the last 20 years Texas industry has been diversifying, and now the state is one of the leaders in technology.
		Texas is the only state that had six flags, including the current one.
		Texas became the 28th state of the Union on December 29, 1845.
	members.tripod.com /~texcolca1/body/texas.html (1607 words)

	Texas Sesquicentennial Committee to Celebrate Texas' Annexation to the United States: An Inventory of a Birthday Card ...
		The Committee sponsored the card as part of the ceremony at the Texas State Capitol on February 19, 1996 to commemorate the date in 1846 when power was officially transferred from the Republic of Texas to the State of Texas.
		The Texas Sesquicentennial Committee to Celebrate Texas' Annexation to the United States (referred to hereafter as the Committee) was established by Executive Order of the Governor of the State of Texas (AWR 94-18) in order to celebrate Texas' annexation to the United States on December 29, 1845.
		The record of the Texas Sesquicentennial Committee to Celebrate Texas' Annexation to the United States consists of an oversized, tri-panelled, colored birthday card wishing Texas a happy 150th birthday (1845-1995).
	www.lib.utexas.edu /taro/tslac/10205/10205-P.html (655 words)

	Anson Jones
		He was elected to the Republic of Texas Congress, where he became interested in the Annexation of Texas to the United States.
		Jones returned to Texas, was elected to the Senate, and became a vocal critic of Lamar's foreign policy.
		On April 12, 1844, the negotiations were completed and Texas signed an annexation treaty with the U.S. Ten days later, Tyler submitted the treaty to the Senate, along with hundreds of pages of supporting documents explaining the commercial and pro-slavery benefits of the move.
	www.sonofthesouth.net /texas/anson-jones.htm (1052 words)

	Dallas Historical Society - Bound for Texas: Annexation
		The last President of the Republic of Texas, Anson Jones, relinquished executive authority to the first Governor of the State of Texas, J. Pinckney Henderson, in an official ceremony on February 19, 1846.
		The annexation of Texas thrust the United States into a political argument with Mexico.
		For this reason, Mexico claimed that Texas could not become a part of the U.S. Mexico further stated that any attempts to annex Texas would be considered as an act of aggression towards Mexico, an act that could result in military activity.
	www.dallashistory.org /history/texas/annexation.htm (494 words)

	The Mexican War
		While the Republic of Texas had claimed the Rio Grande as its boundary, the adjacent Mexican state of Tamaulipas claimed the area north of the Rio Grande to the Nueces River.
		Abolitionists in the United States, who had opposed the annexation of Texas as a slave state, claimed that the move to the Rio Grande was a hostile and aggressive act by Polk to provoke a war with Mexico to add new slave territory to the United States.
		The principal theater of war would be Texas, hundreds of miles from the populous areas of the United States.
	www.lnstar.com /mall/texasinfo/mexicow.htm (4040 words)

	Resolution Annexing Texas to the US
		The annexation of Texas was a key issue in James K. Polk's U. presidential election campaign of 1844.
		Under the agreement, Texas was to retain all of its "vacant and unappropriated lands," as well as its public debts.
		In addition, Texas, which claimed a land area about 50 percent larger than that of the present state, was given the option to form out of its territory up to four additional states.
	www.lsjunction.com /docs/annex.htm (431 words)

	Republic of Texas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Republic of Texas was a country in North America between the United States and Mexico that existed from 1836 to 1845.
		Texas claimed the Rio Grande as its southern and western limit, according to the Treaties of Velasco of May 1836 which were signed by General Santa Anna.
		Sam Houston was removed as Governor of Texas in 1861 due to his refusal to pledge allegiance to the Confederacy, and stood against Texas leaving the Union.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Republic_of_Texas (1630 words)

	Annexation of Texas
		The question of admitting Texas to the Union loomed large in the Election of 1844.
		Opposing annexation were Northerners who objected to the spread of slavery on either moral or economic grounds, and those who predicted that admitting Texas would lead to war with Mexico.
		The annexation led to a break in diplomatic relations with Mexico, which hadannexation of Texas to Congress, which passed it by joint resolution.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h302.html (479 words)

	American Experience \| Remember the Alamo \| People & Events \| PBS
		On February 19, 1846, in Austin, Texas, the Texas Republic's president formally transferred power to the new governor of the U.S. state of Texas.
		When Texas officials, lead by the Republic's president, Sam Houston, first sought U.S. annexation in 1837, the request was met with a storm of protest from Northeastern Americans.
		The threat that Texas might become a British satellite territory forced U.S. President John Tyler to reconsider the prospect of annexation.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/alamo/peopleevents/e_annex.html (730 words)

	The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
		Discusses annexation of Texas, abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia, duplicity of administration and Southern slave states as well as the suspension of the rules of the House of Representatives for debate.
		The annexation question became one of the most controversial issues in American politics in the late 1830s and early 1840s.
		In fact, British abolitionists, greatly worried that Texas might revive and stimulate the slave trade, were working to convince Texas to outlaw slavery in exchange for British foreign aid.
	www.gilderlehrman.org /search/display_results.php?id=GLC00567 (958 words)

	City of Austin - Annexation
		The annexation area is located in south central Travis County on the east side of IH 35 at the Onion Creek Parkway/IH 35 intersection approximately 7/10 of a mile south of the Slaughter Lane/IH 35 intersection.
		The annexation area is also shown on the map in Exhibit A. The Onion Creek area is included in the City of Austin’s Municipal Annexation Plan as amended in December 2000.
		Residents of the annexation area may request extension of the service plan, and the plan may be extended upon the mutual agreement of the City and the residents.
	www.ci.austin.tx.us /annexation/onionck_fsplan.htm (4303 words)

	The Avalon Project : Annexation of Texas. Joint resolution of the Congress of the United
		Begun and held at the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday the second day of December, eighteen hundred and forty-four.
		Third- New states, of convenient size, not exceeding four in number, in addition to said state of Texas, and having sufficient population, may hereafter, by the consent of said state, be formed out of the territory thereof, which shall be entitled to admission under the provisions of the federal constitution.
		And such states as may be formed out of that portion of said territory lying south of thirty-six degrees thirty minutes north latitude, commonly known as the Missouri compromise line, shall be admitted into the Union with or without slavery, as the people of each state asking admission may desire.
	www.yale.edu /lawweb/avalon/texan01.htm (214 words)

	"Annexation"
		Clay himself were now to add another letter to his former Texas correspondence, he would express this sentiment, and carry out the idea already strongly stated in one of them, in a manner which would tax all the powers of blushing belonging to some of his party adherents.
		It is wholly untrue, and unjust to ourselves, the pretence that the Annexation has been a measure of spoliation, unrightful and unrighteous--of military conquest under forms of peace and law--of territorial aggrandizement at the expense of justice, and justice due by a double sanctity to the weak.
		It was not revolution; it was resistance to revolution: and resistance under such circumstances as left independence the necessary resulting state, caused by the abandonment of those with whom her former federal association had existed.
	web.grinnell.edu /courses/HIS/f01/HIS202-01/Documents/OSullivan.html (1397 words)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages: History (The Great Divide)
		noted in his history of Texas, the nascent republic was ill-suited to maintain itself as a sovereign nation, and the presence of such a tenuous political entity in the midst of North America posed a threat to the ambitions and interests of the United States:
		The primary stumbling block to Texas' annexation by the U.S. was that the act was almost certain to provoke war with Mexico, an eventuality which came to pass with the outbreak of the
		Any real likelihood that Texas might be carved up into additional states was ended when Texas seceded from the Union in 1861, joined the side of the Confederacy in the Civil War, and was not formally
	www.snopes.com /history/american/texas.asp (970 words)

	Today in History: June 23
		The leaders of the republic first voted for Texas to be annexed in 1836, soon after it gained independence from Mexico, but the U.S. Congress was unwilling to admit another state which permitted slavery.
		Texas War for Independence from Mexico and the first President of the Republic of Texas, had been a strong advocate of annexation.
		Search on Texas in the Today in History archive to learn more about the events in Texas history such as the fall of the Alamo on March 6, 1836, and the hurricane that decimated Galveston Island on September 8, 1900.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/today/jun23.html (1335 words)

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