|
|
 |
|
|
|
When Texas declared independence for it's state state of Mexico in the year 1836, many of the white southerners were hoping to obtain Texas as a new state of slavery. The Northerners were frightened that the permission of Texas to come into the Union would iscrease power of the south in Congress, and make the U.S. have war with Mexico. In 1845, a lot of politicians were caught up in westward expansion, thinking it was their nation's destiny to get from shore to shore. The white southern politicians succeeded in makingTexas the Union's twenty-eighth. Mexico was furious about that decision, and the U.S. called a war on Mexico in May of 1846. After years of fighting, they ended the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo on February 2, 1848. Because of this, the treaty allowed Southeastern territorries to be given to the U.S.
|
|
|