He sent John Slidell to buy California and new Mexico. This can mess up the slave-free economy. President John Tyler restarted negotiations with the Republic of Texas. North and South and risked war with Mexico, which had broken off relations with the United States. While Mexico didn’t follow through with its threat to declare war, relations between the two nations remained tense over border disputes. After the mission failed, the U.S. army under Gen. Zachary Taylor advanced to the mouth of the Rio Grande, the river that the state of Texas claimed as its southern boundary. THE END.
<u>The Anti-Federalists</u> opposed the ratification of the 1787 U.S. Constitution because they feared that the new national government would be too powerful and thus threaten individual liberties, given the absence of a bill of rights.
They established a better education system in rural Texas by working for mandatory schooling for 9 months per school year, offered free school supplies and textbooks, and demanded vocational training.
