At midnight
They were not going to annex at first because the president at that time said it would upset the equal number of slave states and free states.
he feared the war with Mexico
It did not annex Texas.
The vote in congress to annex Texas
Nine years later, Texas joined the Union.
Congress voted to annex Texas
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Oregon and Texas.
The US annexed Texas from Mexico in 1844 after James K Polk won the presidential election.
The republic of Texas
They feared Texas would join Britain and declare an end to slavery.