Causes<span> include controversy over admitting Missouri as a slave state in 1820, the acquisition of Texas as a slave state in 1845 and the status of slavery in western territories won as a result of the Mexican–American </span>War<span> and the resulting Compromise of 1850.
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This was the more radical position of the American settlers and Tejanos in Texas. Houston was selected as Commander-in-Chief at the convention to declare Texan independence in March 1836, and he signed the Texas Declaration of Independence on March 2, 1836, his 43rd birthday.
2. George Washington and James Madison
