1. Annexation of Texas

2. Review: Six Flags Over Texas
Annexation
December 1845

3. What is ANNEXATION?
To add a state or territory into (as part of) another country or nation. TEXAS annexed DECEMBER 29, 1845.

6. People FOR Annexation Sam Houston - 1st/3rd TX President
Pro-Slavery groups, South
Anson Jones - 4th TX President
John Tyler - 10th US President
James K. Polk - 11th US President
Most Texans

7. Reasons FOR annexation
Slavery - Texas and the southern U.S. states wanted/ needed slaves for crops.
Debt - Texas owed a lot of money it couldn’t re-pay. If Texas was annexed, the U.S. would pay our debts.

8. Reasons FOR annexation
Public Land- If the U.S. paid Texas’s debts, then Texas had to give the U.S. free land as re-payment.

9. People AGAINST Annexation
Mirabeau B. Lamar - 2nd TX President
Anti-Slavery Groups, North
Andrew Jackson - 7th US President
Henry Clay – Ran against Polk for Pres
Mexico

10. Reasons AGAINST annexation
Anti-Slavery - The U.S. didn’t want to upset the balance of free versus slave states. Adding Texas would create more slave states than free states.

11. Reasons AGAINST annexation
War - The U.S. wanted to avoid war with Mexico which they feared would happen if they annexed Texas.

12. Reasons AGAINST annexation
TX Debt/Land - The U.S. didn’t want to pay Texas’s debt without getting something in return. And Texans didn’t want to give up their land for free.
What’s in it for us?

13. Reasons AGAINST annexation
Elections was an election year and the U.S. wanted to avoid controversy.