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The '''Texas annexation''' was the 1845 [[annexation]] of the [[Republic of Texas]] into the [[United States]]. Texas was [[Admission to the Union|admitted to the Union]] as the [[List of U.S. states by date of admission to the Union|28th state]] on December 29, 1845.
The Republic of Texas [[Texas Declaration of Independence|declared independence]] from the [[Centralist Republic of Mexico|Republic of Mexico]] on March 2, 1836. It applied for annexation to the United States the same year, but was rejected by the [[United States Secretary of State]]. At
In 1843, U.S. President [[John Tyler]], then unaligned with any political party, decided independently to pursue the annexation of Texas in a bid to gain a base of support for another four years in office. His official motivation was to outmaneuver suspected diplomatic efforts by the British government for the emancipation of slaves in Texas, which would undermine [[slavery in the United States]]. Through secret negotiations with the Houston administration, Tyler secured a treaty of annexation in April 1844. When the documents were submitted to the U.S. Senate for ratification, the details of the terms of annexation became public and the question of acquiring Texas took center stage in the [[1844 United States presidential election|presidential election of 1844]]. Pro-Texas-annexation southern Democratic delegates denied their anti-annexation leader [[Martin Van Buren]] the nomination at their party's convention in May 1844. In alliance with pro-expansion northern Democratic colleagues, they secured the nomination of [[James K. Polk]], who ran on a pro-Texas [[Manifest Destiny]] platform.
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