HIST 226 Lecture Notes - Juan Cortina, Plutocracy, Brownsville, Texas
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Why did texas give up its independence and join the u. s. : 1843: renewed efforts for tx" annexation to us, texas is financially unstable i. Tx debt - approaching 10 million: texas is thinly populated i. ii. iii. Worried about protection: militarily - fending off attacks i. ii. Mexicans that are upset about tx breaking away. By july 1843 to get mexican gov"t to agree to peace. Houston has assistance of british officials in tx and in mexico. British gets economic (tx cotton) out of helping tx. Hope that dispute is finally over that tx will give a piece of land to. British for helping them = influence in north america. Form alliance with british, u. s. doesn"t want british in u. s. or america and doesn"t want tx to try and expand its borders further west, because u. s. wants to expand west. Alliance with british is making u. s. nervous = them more open to annexing tx.
