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The MDY that Texas joined the United States.
What is December 29, 1845?
The amount of people that lived in Texas when Texas "won" independence from Mexico.
What is 50,000?
The amount of money paid to Mexico for the Gadsden Purchase.
What is $10 million dollars?
The month and year the U.S. offered Mexico $5 million dollars for Texas.
What is November, 1845?
The amount of people that needed to live in Texas before Texas could join the U.S. as a state.
What is 60,000?
The political party in the U.S. when Texas first became a state that most people in Texas were not affiliated with.
What is the Whig Party?
The MDY of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo/the Mexican Cession.
What is February 2, 1848?
The amount of people that lived in Texas when Texas joined the United States in 1845.
What is 125,000?
The amount of years a person could serve as a term of president in Texas after Sam Houston's first term.
What is three years?
The month and year Mexican soldiers fired at American troops which started the US-Mexican War.
What is May of 1846?
The amount of people that lived in Texas by 1860.
What is 600,000?
The amount of time that Mexican citizens living in new U.S. territory had to decide on whether or not to become U.S. citizens or move to Mexico.
What is one year?
The year of the Gadsden Purchase that finalized the border between Mexico and the United States.
What is 1853?
The part of the U.S. that most Anglo-Americans came from.
What is the Southern part of the United States?
When a country formally gives up property or land.
What is cession?