| Show when texa became state texas woo her independence from mexico and became irown as the he public of texas in in the year immediately following there were repeated invasions and massacre by the mexicans who never abandoned their claims to the texas territory they advanced three times as far as ann antonio but in each case were repelled statehood was offered to texas but the question of annexation brought up the difficulties of the slave question which became the national issue of the polk campaign however he won the presidency by favoring ahe annexation of texas before he took the oath of congress passed a joint resolution again offering statehood to texas which she adopted and the territory became a part of alie united states in 1845 |
