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Because the South at the time wanted to expand slavery and many people believed in manifest destiny, which meant that they wanted to expand "from sea to shining sea".
because after the Texas-mexicican war Texas was a free republic and voted to join the union.

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because then there would be war with Mexico

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They got annexed because Mexico was tryin to get it.So finally we fought them and after we ended up beating them Texas got annexed.We lost at the Alamo poor Davy Crocket.

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Texas was annexed, because they knew if they joined forces with the United States, they would have a bigger army, and more support.

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Because it has a cool name and Texas was part of Mexico and they were snatching their people up.

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The Texas annexation happened because Texas was trying to avoid war with Mexico and because Texas had large debts and needed assistance.

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to be protected by the U.S. from Mexico

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