The correct answer to this open question is the following,
In 1829, President Andrew Jackson offered to buy Texas from Mexico for $5 million. The Mexican government responded to President Jackson's offer to buy Texas with a negative. Mexican rulers did not agree.
The reaction of the Mexican government was to prohibit more American emigration to Texas. United States people and some Texans did not want to learn and assimilate the Mexican culture, did not want to convert into Catholicism, and never considered learning Spanish, the official language in México.
Texans did not consider themselves Americans, either Mexicans; they were Texans and were eager to form their own Republic.
A potentate had absolute power to make laws and command the army for 6 months.
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The victory at Saratoga New York was the battle that persuaded the French to support the Continental Army.
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<span>The expansion brought up the issue of slavery, which divided both the North and the South. The North had industrialized itself, creating less of a need for slavery, and they for the most part were against slavery. The South still used slaves for their plantations, and they wanted to keep slavery to reap profits. The Supreme Court tried to absolve the issue of slavery in Dred Scott vs. Sandford, but this only angered the North more. This issue was one that eventually led towards the Civil War.</span>
Because they practiced polygamy. They were tarred and feathered, and were actually ran out of their homes by bands of men on horseback.
