All of the following issues caused the U.S. government in 1836 to decline to support Texan and domestic calls for the annexation of Texas EXCEPT
A) Texas would have to be admitted as a huge slave state upsetting the delicate political balance in the U.S. Senate between slave and free states.
B) the U.S. government did not want to risk potentially damaging the important trading relationship with Mexico.
C) neither outgoing president Andrew Jackson nor his handpicked successor Martin Van Buren were prepared to support annexation in the midst of the contested presidential election year of 1836.
D) the U.S. government was politically sensitive to the wishes of the Tejano minority in Texas, which opposed annexation by the United States.
Answer: D
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