Manifest destiny was the idea that the United States would stretch from sea to sea as a beacon of liberty. Texas had lots of American immigrants at the time and had a lot of slave plantations that could of extended the south. Texas also had recently broken free from Mexico, and was made by American settlers who made their government based on the US. So, because of all this, America decided to annex Texas and incorporate it into the Union.
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The British began to tax the colonists heavily which ended with the colonists resenting.
Thomas Jefferson's idea of how slavery could be tolerated in a nation that trumpeted liberty had to do with the fact that he felt it was a "necessary evil" that must continue long enough for the US to develop properly. He felt as though blacks were inherently inferior and therefore needed "guidance".
