1837 Texas Treaty

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 …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