Adding the Lone Star
Cash, Jordan T![Adding the Lone Star](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/456/45680574/CHSBZCOP0345680574.jpg)
The annexation of Texas was one of the most momentous actions of the United States government in the antebellum period. Apart from adding what, at that time, was the largest state in the Union by area, it opened up further avenues for Americans' westward expansion, exacerbated tensions with Mexico resulting in the Mexican-American War, and accelerated the regional conflict over slavery. While the familiar concept of "Manifest Destiny" gives th...