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Today a new republic has raised its flag, a republic with only one star.  Texas is now known as the lone star republic.  The republic already has its own army and navy set up already.  They also have their own president Sam Houston who won by a land slide.  A large chunk of people in Texas wanted to be part of america and considered themselves as Americans. But now Texas government has asked congress to annex Texas in the union. All of the slaves states wanted Texas to join the country so they could have more power in congress. But most Texans and free states didn't want to join the country. Most Texans came from mexico and were anti-slavery.

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Only watch until 53 second point

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In response to what the "People Responds" Texas Congress agreed with What the people responded that Texas shouldn't join the union. They didn't annex Texas and stayed a republic for another 10 years but then finally did and started a war with Mexico. The war with Mexico was started because they wanted to know how big Texas was and how much of Mexico they where gonna take over.

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Almost all Texans from Mexico wanted Texas to stay a republic because if they had joined america they would be a slave state.  If they became a slave state then the slave states would outnumber the free states and have an advantage in congress.  Also they feared that if they annexed with America then they would start a war with Mexico.  Nick Nazajo, a Texan from EL Paso said, "Since i'm originally from Mexico and Mexico is anti slavery. If my neibor had slaves i would try to kill my neighbor and free the slaves".