president Jackson and the north.
It did not annex Texas.
The vote in congress to annex Texas
The republic of Texas
in 1844
Sam Houston was the president that agreed to annex the state of Texas. he was actually the President of the Lone Star Republic.
At midnight
United States.
President John Tyler annexed Texas in 1845
Martin Van Buren was given the opportunity to annex Texas but he refused. It would take President John Tyler to approve the annexation of Texas. James Knox Polk favored the idea and made it a campaign issue but Tyler approved it before Polk came into office.
Sam Houston
American farmers living in the Mexican territory of Texas wanted the same land rights and permissions that they would have in the United States. When the Mexicans refused, the Texans decided that they would secede and hope that the United States would annex them.
Jackson finds out that Texas has there independence and he wants to annex it. He is hesitant to annex it because antislavery groups in the U.S. oppose the expansion of slavery.