Many Americans went to Texas in the 1820s because of Mexico's

a. system of self-goverment
b. promise of cheap, fertile cotton land
c. acceptance of slavery
d. the discovery of gold
e. policy of religious intolerance


Ans: b. promise of cheap, fertile cotton land

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