Did the State of Texas*** and the United States really join the United States voluntarily?

In 1845, inside the Texas State Capitol, a building narrator proudly announced to the public: ? We accept the admission of the United States of America into the State of Texas*** and the State of Peace.?

This may seem like a bit of an American joke, but the truth is that it's something that really happened in history, and even today there are still Texans who are proud of it. It is because Texas is one of the most unique states in the United States, the only one to have been incorporated as a nation, through peaceful negotiations, into the United States.

Unlike the territories seized by the United States through war, Texas still retains a great deal of autonomy, and many Texans still proudly refer to themselves as the populace of the Lone Star **** and Nation, recognizing that being a Texan or Lone Star **** and Nation is more superior to being an American, and that the Lone Star State Flag still flies on the State Capitol building in Texas.

Why is the status of Texas so different from the rest of American federalism? And why did Texas willingly incorporate into the United States instead of sticking around to become an independent nation? Next we'll talk about this most special of American states? The past and present life of Texas.

1, America's fancy tawdry operation

The first people to rule Texas were colonists from Spain, but Texas was also just a small piece of the Spanish colonies in North America. And as Spain's power weakened, these Western colonies began to make noise about their independence, and in 1821, Mexico declared its independence from Spain and officially became an independent nation.

The land of the newly independent Mexico is not small, and can even be said to be close to the territory of the United States at the time, and the state of Texas was just a province under Mexico. But Mexico has a fatal flaw, that is, too few people, people less land is not enough to develop a huge territory, and to attract immigrants to Mexico than the next door to the United States.

Mexico has introduced a series of policies to attract immigrants in order to develop its remote lands. And it just so happens that the United States at that time, the land area has been insufficient to meet the needs of farmers, the two sides are also a hit and miss, a large number of Americans ran to the Mexicans to engage in the development of the land.

And the U.S. government not only didn't stop it, but even encouraged this behavior, which must have been hiding something small mind not. Beginning in 1825, a large number of southerners from the U.S. moved into Mexican lands, and the sparsely populated area around Texas, with its relatively favorable climate, attracted a large number of Americans.

And in the U.S. federal government behind the secret support, even the Mexicans will not expect in just a few years time, Texas in the number of Americans has far more than the Mexicans. And the Mexican government is not stupid, and then go on Texas in the end is whose territory it is impossible to say, so it began to limit immigration, but the water can not be reversed Mexican government can really wish?

2, the independence of Texas

Mexico in the introduction of the bill to limit the total **** a few: control the number of immigrants, and the local Americans to strengthen the management, forcing them to learn Spanish, belief in Roman Catholicism? These several bills look like there is not too much wrong, Mexico in accordance with the implementation of this way not a few generations of these new Americans will certainly be assimilated into the Mexican, but the Mexican government once again miscalculated.

The Mexican government included higher taxes and a ban on owning slaves in several of its bills, which is what ignited the conflict between Mexico and Texas. Raising taxes was fine, but banning slave ownership was moving these American immigrants and even Mexicans. Because these Americans ran to Texas, most of them are from the southern slaveholding state ranchers, these places have a long tradition of slavery, which can be left to your Mexican government a decree to say change, it is not in the old money to move those plantation economy?

In Mexico's decree was just introduced soon, Texas began to set off a huge protest march, but this was violently suppressed by the Mexican government, but the two sides of the conflict will not be with the Mexican military suppression on the weakening, but with time to become more y rooted in the grudge.

In 1835, Texas, under the leadership of Sam Houston, officially declared independence from Mexico, and the Mexican troops stationed in Texas were expelled by the rebels. The Mexican government could not just stand by and watch, it couldn't give away such a large piece of land for nothing. So in 1836, the Mexican army and the Texas militia began a fierce battle at the Alamo, a battle that lasted half a month and ended in a crushing victory for the Mexican army.

The Mexican army won Texas, but at the same time the Mexican government lost completely. The Battle of the Alamo not only failed to break the backbone of the Texans, but completely galvanized them into revolt.

Massive numbers of Texans raised their guns in the air and shouted ? Don't forget the Alamo? , as Texan civilians joined the war against Mexico. After the Texans raised their guns and joined the army, in conjunction with its original Texan Legion, the Texans made a clean sweep of San Jacinto a month later, when Sam Houston guided the Texans to defeat the Mexican army with fewer men, and also captured Mexico's top military man, Santa Ana, as a means of forcing the Mexican government to sign a treaty that would allow Mexico to formally give up its interference in Texas.

Thus, in 1836, Texas was officially recognized in large numbers in the international community and officially became an independent nation. And next door, in the final term of U.S. President Andrew Jackson, he also declared that he had recognized Texas **** and the state, with European countries like Britain and France acquiescing. But it's not over yet, and why would Texas give up its status as an independent nation and throw itself into the arms of the United States?

3, the U.S. attitude toward the Texas **** and the State

The U.S. federal government's internal attitude toward Texas was never unanimous; on the one hand, the Democrats, who endorsed slavery, of course were in favor of the Texas **** and the State, while on the other side of the Whig Party (the predecessor of the **** and the Party) drifted from the attitude of the Texans. But eventually the two parties unified and both supported the incorporation of Texas into the United States.

But there was one more crucial question at stake: if Texas joined the United States, would it be an abolitionist state or a slaveholding state? This is not only related to the struggle between the Whigs and the Democrats, this also has to do with the opinions of the Texans, you know the last time the Texans revolted, is not because of the abolition of slavery in Mexico, which is a lesson from the past!

On the other hand, Sam Houston, the first president of the Texas **** and country, couldn't wait to open annexation talks with the United States. Is it true that Texans don't want independence? It's not that they don't want to but they really don't have the strength.

As the first president of Texas **** and the country's Sam Houston knows very well, Texas is not only a small number of people, can not support a large number of troops. The huge territory was also sandwiched between two North American giants, the United States and Mexico, which made it even more difficult for the Texas **** and State. To put it bluntly, Texans also understand that they lack the strength to be independent, and instead of being annexed again by the United States or Mexico later, it is better to strike first and pre-empt the opening of the entry negotiations to get themselves into a better position, which is the real reason why Texans agreed to be annexed to the United States.

But that was just what President Houston advocated, and after he stepped down at the end of his term, his successor, President Lamar, saw it differently. He believed that Texas should continue to encroach westward into Mexican territory as a means of creating a power that could rival the U.S. Even Lamar's idea was endorsed by European powers such as Britain and France.

During Lamar's tenure, the proposal for Texas*** and the United States to join the U.S. was put aside, and Texas*** and the United States instead began to build a large number of schools, issued its own national currency, and established the capital city of Texas*** and the United States, making it appear that Texas independence from the U.S. was a foregone conclusion.

But after Lamar had been president for only one term, Sam Houston came back to power, and Texas began to swing again between integration into the United States or independent development. On the other hand, the re-installed Houston hooked up with the new president of the United States, John Tyler, who not only supported the integration of Texas into the United States, but also insisted that it be in the form of a slave state.

Eventually, in 1844, the United States proposed the Tyler? Treaty of Texas, which was eventually officially signed by President Taylor in the three days before he stepped down. President Tyler's successor, President Polk, was also a pro-slaveholding and expansionist president, and he couldn't afford to let a piece of Texas get away, so for the first time ever, the incorporation of Texas into the U.S. was recognized by both sides.

Texas flag (left)

In December 1845, Texas officially became a state of the United States, increasing the size of the United States (Texas was about one-ninth of the size of the United States when it first joined the United States, and was later split up to form Texas, New Mexico, Kansas, and Colorado, among other states).

4, Texans how to view the United States

Texans for the United States is very ambivalent, even in the twenty-first century, there is still a large group of Texans think of themselves as the Lone Star * * * * and the country, rather than Americans, and every year Texas will hold an independence parade. But it is undeniable that it is an irrevocable fact that Texas became a territory of the United States, and there can be no regulation in the U.S. Constitution that allows federalism to secede from the United States.

The country in the eyes of Texas

And in the 21st century, because of Texas's unique low-tax policy, attracting a large number of U.S. high-tech companies to come, Texas has become the second-highest U.S. GDP of the federal state.

But even after more than a hundred years, Texas' position in the United States remains unchanged. Most notably, Texas is supposed to be the only state in the union that allows people to carry long guns on the streets to buy groceries, which stems from Texans' history of carrying long guns against the Mexican army, and is the reason for their toughness.

Texans carrying the flag of the Lone Star **** and the country

In the United States Texas is definitely a strange flower, Texas **** and the country's flag is still hanging high in the Texas Capitol building, there is still the Governor of Texas because there is not two sentences of independence by the people against the so stepped down. This is Texas in America, the son of the Lone Star with a difference.