Many Americans in Texas were not satisfied with independence.
They wanted to be reunited with their native country, the United States. Slave-owning American southerners wanted to annex Texas because it would enter the Union as a slave state, lending support to their side in the growing congressional disputes over slavery.
In 1845, the United States annexed Texas as its largest state.
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