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It was a major element in the Texas War for Independence. Mexico welcomed the settelers with these provisos: you had to be a Catholic, you could not hold slaves and you had to swear an oath of allegiance to Mexico. The immigrant didn't mind switching religion or swearing an oath, but he wanted to get rich and that meant cotton which in turn meant slaves.

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Most Southerners wanted Texas to join the US as a slave state, which it did. Political leaders such as Calhoun of South Carolina believed that the slave population was too crowded in the Deep South and wanted to spread the slave population to a large state such as Texas.

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