His official motivation was to outmaneuver suspected diplomatic efforts by the British government for the emancipation of slaves in Texas, which would undermine slavery in the United States. Through secret negotiations with the Houston administration, Tyler secured a treaty of annexation in April 1844.
A referendum held soon after the Battle of San Jacinto showed Texans favoring annexation by a vote of 3,277 to 93. The annexation question became one of the most controversial issues in American politics in the late 1830s and early 1840s. The issue was not Texas but slavery.
Why did many Texans favor annexation to the United States? Texas debts from the republic would be paid. Texas would be a territory rather than a state. Texas would keep 21 million acres of public land.
In 1844, Congress finally agreed to annex Texas. On December 29, 1845, Texas entered the United States as a slave state, broadening the irrepressible differences in the United States over the issue of slavery and setting off the Mexican-American War.
Texans considered U.S. citizens inferior and did not want to be part of their country. Which of the following was not a reason the United States was reluctant to annex Texas? The United States did not want to fight a war with Mexico.
The primary reason the U.S. did not want to annex Texas in 1837 was because annexation would likely start a war with Mexico. In 1845, many Mexicans were unhappy about the annexation of Texas by the United States. The root cause of the war was that Mexico and the U.S. could not agree on the Texas-Mexico border.
The United States didn't immediately annex Texas because Northerners opposed to slavery objected to the annexation of more slave territory and didn't want slave states to outnumber free states. Many Americans also feared that annexation would lead to war with Mexico.
In the end, Texas was admitted to the United States a slave state. The annexation of Texas contributed to the coming of the Mexican-American War (1846-1848). The conflict started, in part, over a disagreement about which river was Mexico's true northern border: the Nueces or the Rio Grande.
What was required before Texas could be annexed by the United States? Both countries had to approve annexation.