Missouri compromise – to balance the power in the senate. – they chose to be a slave state. Would want to be a slave state in the south.
Mexican American War- “Polk’s War Whigs”: invited people to Mexico to become Mexicans, none did switch to Mexican.
Tariffs – Texas is a competitor to the United States; would add slave territory. More people in senate more power. – fought its own war for Independence.
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