1836 gained Texas its independence. Texas requested immediate admission into the United States, but opposition from the North to the addition of another slave state to the Union, then precariously ...

Buenger said that what prevented Texas from becoming a U.S. state after the war was slavery. “In the summer of 1836, Texas political leaders made overtures to join the United States. Those were turned ...

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In 1836, the Whigs factioned off ... with a national bank and the congressional regulation of the expansion of slavery. 1840: Democrats: Martin Van Buren The Democrats upheld a platform which ...

Yours, for God and humanity.” This was the profound and customary closing to letters written by Pastor Hiram Wilson. Why is ...