What are five SPECIFIC facts about the Texas Annexation?
The Texas Annexation of 1845 was the voluntary annexation of the Republic of Texas to the United States of America, becoming the twenty-eighth state. Anglo-American immigrants, primarily from the South, began immigrating to Mexican Texas in the early 1820s at the request of the Mexican government, which sought to populate the sparsely inhabited lands of its northern frontier. In August 1837, James Freeman, the Texan ambassador to the United States, submitted an annexation proposal to the Van Buren administration. Believing that annexation would lead to war with Mexico, the administration declined Texas’ proposal. In 1843, President John Tyler came out in support of annexation, entering negotiations with the Republic of Texas for an annexation treaty, which he submitted to the Senate. On 8 June 1844, the treaty was defeated 35 to 16, well below the two-thirds majority necessary for ratification. James K. Polk, a Democrat and a strong supporter of territorial expansion, was elected presi
