Republik Texas: Perbedaan antara revisi

Pada [[28 Februari]] [[1845]], [[Kongres Amerika Serikat|US Congress]] passed a bill that would authorize the [[United States]] to annex the Republic of Texas. On March 1, [[President of the United States|US President]] [[John Tyler]] signed the bill. The legislation set the date for annexation for December 29 of the same year. Faced with imminent American annexation of Texas, [[Charles Elliot]] and Alphonse de Saligny, the British and French ministers to Texas, were dispatched to Mexico City by their governments. Meeting with Mexico's foreign secretary, they signed a "Diplomatic Act" in which Mexico offered to recognize an independent Texas with boundaries that would be determined with French and British mediation. Texas President [[Anson Jones]] forwarded both offers to a specially elected convention meeting at Austin, and the American proposal was accepted with only one dissenting vote. The Mexican proposal was never put to a vote. Following the previous decree of President Jones, the proposal was then put to a vote throughout the republic.

 

 

On October 13, 1845, a large majority of voters in the republic approved both the American offer and the proposed constitution that specifically endorsed [[slavery]] and emigrants bringing slaves to Texas.<ref>[http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/constitutions/texas1845/a8 Constitution of Texas (1845)]</ref> This constitution was later accepted by the US Congress, making Texas a US state on the same day annexation took effect, December 29, 1845 (therefore bypassing a [[territory of the United States|territorial]] phase).<ref>[http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/texan04.htm The Avalon Project at Yale Law School: Texas – From Independence to Annexation]</ref> One of the motivations for annexation was the huge debts which the Republic of Texas government had incurred. As part of the [[Compromise of 1850]], in return for $10,000,000 in Federal bonds, Texas dropped claims to territory which included parts of present-day [[Colorado]], [[Kansas]], [[Oklahoma]], [[New Mexico]], and [[Wyoming]].