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On March 1, 1845, President Tyler signed the annexation bill, and on March 3 (his last full day in office), he forwarded the House version to Texas, offering immediate annexation. When Polk took office at noon the following day, he encouraged Texas to accept Tyler’s offer.
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Annexation ordinance and state constitution submitted to the Texas voters for approval. (The vote tally on November 10, 1845, was 4,254 to 267 in favor of annexation; the total vote, compiled January 1, 1846, was 7,664 to 430 in favor of annexation.)
The Conquest of California, also known as the Conquest of Alta California or the California Campaign, was a military campaign of the Mexican–American War carried out by the United States in Alta California (modern-day California), then a part of Mexico.
Apr 1, 2023 · The Congress of Texas approved the annexation on June 23, 1845, and a special Annexation Convention approved it on July 4, 1865. Texas voters approved a new state constitution and annexation on October 13, 1865.
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The Texas question lay dormant until 1843, when President John Tyler, a southerner, notified the Texas government that his administration was prepared to renew annexation talks. The two governments drafted an annexation treaty offering to admit the Lone Star republic into the Union as a territory.
Voting on February 27, 1845, the Senate approved Texas statehood, 27–25. The House of Representatives approved the bill on the following day by a vote of 132–76. The long-sought offer of annexation had finally been extended to Texas.
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While Texas already included parts of present-day New Mexico, Colorado, and Arkansas, in 1842 the Texas congress voted to extend Texas' boundaries all the way west to the Pacific Ocean to what was later California and some parts of northern Mexico.
