1837 Texas Treaty

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In 1836 Texas declared themselves independent from Mexico, but of course Mexico does not recognize this at first. In 1837 Texas asked the United States to be annexed into their country, but at the time the United States could not accept a new state because of two reasons. The first reason for this was that The States had just reached a balance between Slave States and Free States and with Texas wanting to be a Slave State they would upset that balance. The second reason is that Mexico made it so that if the United States annexed Texas then they would cut off all diplomatic relations. In that The United States basically ignores Texas’s requests to be annexed. In 1844 Texas begins asking to be annexed again but in 1845 Mexico and Texas signs the Cuevas-Smith treaty that entailed that Mexico would recognize Texas independence if they did not annex into the United States but on December 29, 1845 President James K. Polk signed the treaty to allow Texas into the United States. These actions were against the best interests of Mexico therefore making them prone to war now with The United States not to mention that Mexico had cut off diplomatic relations with The United States. President James K. Polk had intentions of taking more land from Mexico by one extending the Texas-Border down to the Rio Grande River and also by trying to obtain the California territory. Mexico had set up defense at their borders and had tightened up on relations with the United States. Battle at the Rio Grande Thought to be the major contributor to the Mexican American war was a battle that happened because of a disagreement of boundaries between Mexico and The United States. Mexico declared the Nueces River as the border between themselves and The United States while The United States declared the boundary line to be defined by the Rio Grande. This left an entire region, The Nueces Strip, to be left disputed. With Mexico on full alert as they tried to defend what land they had left, James K. Polk sent troops into the undefined region in order to secure “their border.” Before they could even get to the Rio Grande, a number Mexican troops ended up “attacking” the 70 soldiers lead by Zachary Taylor. When word got back to the United States about what happened it was made out to be that American soldiers were on their way to secure American borders and then a full troop of Mexicans came into American and spilled American blood on American soil. This gave James K. Polk the initiative that he needed in order to write a letter to Congress asking for permission to declare war on Mexico. Congress agreed and without much public adversity The United States of America was at war with Mexico. Though it seems like the main reason for the Mexican-American war was the shooting between American troops and a Mexican cavalry because of the fact that James K. Polk asked Congress for permission to declare war on Mexico right after the incident and the event was very prevalent in the letter , another reason for the Mexican American War may have been the popular ideology of Manifest Destiny. Manifest Destiny In 1845 John L. O’Sullivan coined the term Manifest Destiny. Manifest Destiny was the ideology that it was America’s God given right to conquer all the …show more content…
Eventually around 7000 Americans had “pledged their allegiance to Mexico” and as the amount of American settlers increased so did the sense of unity between them. It was not long before there was the idea of creating an independent state and with that the next idea of going back to their mother country The United States of America. With the annexation of Texas into the United States there was a strong sense of anger and betrayal on the part of Mexico. For Mexicans the events that took place showed that the trust that was put in the people that they allowed into their country was betrayed. Mexico opened up their country to these people in hope for mutual economic benefits and in the end the The United States had taken a large portion of land from

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