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What are three reasons that the United States had for refusing to annex Texas after it became independent?

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1. getting rid of Texas would disrupt the equalness of slave states and free states.

2. losing Texas could initiate war between the US and Mexico

I couldn't find a third one in my notes we just covered the first and second one.

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