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Why did the northerners and southerners disagree on the annexation?
Southerners favored the annexation of Texas, but Northerners objected that Texas would add another slave state to the Union.
Why did northerners and southerners disagree about annexing Texas?
Because, Texas had a debt toward the US so when they joined they wouldn't have that debt anymore. Also, Northerners objected because annexing Texas means that another slave state would be added, thus upsetting the balance of slave and free states. Southerners favored the annexations because it was in their favor.
Why did Northern and southern disagree on the annexation of Texas?
Southerners favored the annexation of Texas, but Northerners objected that Texas would add another slave state to the Union.
Why did southerners support the annexation of Texas?
They thought that granting popular sovereignty would allow slavery
What was the act of both houses of Congress by which Texas was annexed?
* Joint Resolution - act of both houses of Congress by which Texas was annexed
How would you contrast the Northern and amp Southern positions on the annexation of Texas?
Generally speaking, Southerners supported the annexation, while Northerners had fears. The main issue involved was slavery. Texas was annexed in 1845.
How would you contrast the Northern and Southern positions on the annexation of Texas?
Southerners sought to extend slavery, already established in Texas. Northerners feared that annexation of more slave territory would tip the uneasy balance in the Senate in favor of slave states-and prompt war with Mexico.
Why did Northerners and Southerners disagree about the Texans?
Northern politicians were not that anxious to have Texas join the Union. Many saw a potential problem with Mexico as well as the prospect of adding another slave state to the US. Southern slave owners took a different view and saw Texas as a prospective slave state that could grow cash crops.Hindsight is 20-20 and in the long run, meaning the decades after the US Civil War, Texas, with its oil fields made a great contribution to later day economic power in the US. What is also important about Texas is that the British were making a real effort to bring 'independent" Texas into their sphere of influence. And, they were serious abut that.
Why Northerners against annexing Texas?
They did not want another slave state.
What did Mexico disagree with when the US have Texas?
Mostly they disagreed with the US having Texas.
Who offered to buy Texas from Mexico?
Mexico offered to buy Texas from Mexico.
Why was James Polk's platform in the presidential election of 1844 popular with both Northerners and Southerners?
They both wanted western expansion. And with his platform each of them would gain a state accordingly, Oregon would become a non-slave state and Texas would become a slave state.
