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How did texas become
a state

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In 1845 the Texas join the United States becoming the 28th state when the United States annexed it. Only after the conclusion of the Mexican American war with the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 did Mexico recognize Texan independence Texas declared its secession from the United States in 1861 to join the confederate states of America
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In 1844, Congress finally agreed to annex Texas. On December 29, 1845, Texas entered the United States as a slave state, broadening the irrepressible differences in the United States over the issue of slavery and setting off the Mexican-American War.

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