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Sam Huston Election/Presidency....Republic Of Texas
He was voted president in 1836 and again in 1841, then served as a senator after Texas became a state in 1845. Despite his pro-slavery views, he believed in preserving the Union. He became governor in 1859, but was removed from office after the secession of Texas in 1861.When He was president Stephan F. Austin Died. He created peace with natives again.Regulator–Moderator War of 1844, he sent in Republic militia to Mexico -
Anson Jones Election/Presidency
During this time by the US some supported waiting for annexation or even remaining independent. The United States, in the late 1830s was hesitant to annex Texas for fear of provoking a war with Mexico. Jones and others felt it was important that Texas gain recognition from European states and begin to set up trade relations with them, to make annexation of Texas more attractive to the US or give Texas money -
Texas Annexed
The Republic of Texas declared independence from the Republic of Mexico on March 2,1836. At the time the vast majority of the Texan population favored the annexation of the Republic by the United States.In 1843 U.S. President J.Tyler decided independently to pursue the annexation of Texas.Texas was a Slave State which would undermine slavery in the United States.Through secret negotiations with the Houston administration they secured a treaty of annexing in April,1844. -
Treaty of Guadelaupe Hidalgo
the treaty ended the Mexican–American War Mexico surrendered to end the war. It gave the United States the Rio Grande as a boundary for Texas, and gave the U.S. ownership of California and a large area comprising roughly half of New Mexico, most of Arizona, Nevada, Utah,and parts of Wyoming and Colorado. Mexicans in those annexed areas had the choice of relocating to within Mexico's new boundaries or receiving American citizenship with full civil rights. Over 90% chose to become U.S. citizens. -
Texas Secession
On the eve of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln argued that states were not sovereign before the Constitution but instead they were created by it.Current Supreme Court precedent, in Texas v. White, holds that the states cannot secede from the union by an act of the state.Texas and 11 other states left to join the Confederate States of America -
Election of Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th president of the United States becoming the first Republican to win the presidency.By the time of Lincoln’s inauguration on March 4, 1861, seven states had seceded, and the Confederate States of America had been established Jefferson Davis was its elected president the American Civil War began when Confederate forces under General Beauregard opened fire on Union-held Fort Sumter in South Carolina. In 1863, Lincoln emancipated the slaves. -
The cities I used
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_in_the_American_Civil_War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/abraham-lincoln-elected-president
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Guadalupe_Hidalgo
feud.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Houston
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anson_Jones#Post-presidency
