HIST 2055 Lecture : LECTURE 20
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Militant expansionism or manifest destiny: texas and annexation, election 1844, key issue is if the us is weather to annex texas or not, day 1 of texas independence texas wanted to be annexed by the us. This is because the people who went out to texas were americans. About 30,000 go to texas and about 15% of the people who migrate there are slaves, but immigration had stipulation. You have to become catholic, adopt spanish, eventually the mexican government outlaw slavery. Texicans don"t do anything the mexicans tell them to do. They fight for independence and rack up a lot of debt. Jackson is president when texas first wanted to be annexed by the us. It takes another 8 years before a politician (john tyler) comes up with an idea. No one likes tyler so he hangs his presidency on the annexation of president. Form tennessee campaigns on the annexation of texas.
