How did debates over the annexation of Texas influence the 1844 election?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: The ideal answer should include:
1. President John Tyler put the full weight of his administration behind the annexation of Texas because he thought it would solidify his political support in the South.
2. Northern antislavery Whigs charged that the annexation of Texas was a proslavery plot, leading the Senate to reject the annexation treaty in 1844.
3, Tyler tried to bypass the Senate by admitting Texas as a state through a joint resolution of both house of Congress, but Congress adjourned before the issue came to a vote.
4. Martin Van Buren believed annexing Texas would risk war with Mexico, arouse sectional strife, and destroy the unity of the Democratic Party.
5. To keep the annexation issue out of the 1844 campaign, Van Buren struck a deal with Henry Clay, the favorite for the Whig nomination, that both would publicly oppose immediate annexation.
6. Van Buren’s opposition to annexation cost him the Democratic Party nomination, which chose James K. Polk, an expansionist who ran on the platform calling for simultaneous annexation of Texas and assertion of American claims to all of Oregon.
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