The political circumstances surrounding the admission of Texas as a state in February 1845 including all of the following EXCEPT
A) bypassing the requirement for a two-thirds U.S. Senate treaty ratification vote and instead securing majority vote resolution by both houses of Congress admitting Texas to the Union.
B) President John Tyler reneging on the political promise made to five U.S. Senators to leave the negotiations about the Texas border to his successor, President James K. Polk.
C) Tyler signing the Congressional resolution on March 1, 1845 admitting Texas and offering immediate statehood without any negotiations about the Texas border.
D) Mexico conceding that Texas had legitimately become a state of the United States.
Answer: D
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