Question

What did the United States do to encourage Texas to give up some of its land?

A) threatened to fine or punish it

B) offered to pay off its debt

C) allowed it to become a slave state

D) promised it other land

Answer 1

B is the answer i am on the test

Step-by-step explanation:

Answer 2

The United States offered to pay off its debt to encourage Texas to give up some of its land. Option B is correct.

The Texas annexation was the 1845 annexation of the Republic of Texas into the United States, which was admitted to the Union as the 28th state on December 29, 1845.

Mexican Texas is the historiographical name used to refer to the era of Texan history between 1821 and 1836, when it belonged to Mexico.