ANNEXATION OF TEXAS

WHAT YEAR DID IT TAKE PLACE

• 1845

TERRITORY ACQUIRED

• West Texas and panhandle, east New Mexico
• Western tip of Oklahoma, and a section of Wyoming
• This became the Republic of Texas, then, Texas

TERRITORY CAME FROM...

• The territory came from Mexico
• This was because of a signed agreement

IMPACT OF ACQUISITION

• The short-term inpact was the Mexican American War
• New largest state until Alaska
• Oil-rich state

PEOPLE INVOLVED

• Some people were: President Polk and Tyler
• President Mirabeau B. Lamar, Mexico, and the USA

ADDITIONAL INFO

• Texas became the 28th state