330. The Southerners and Texas
The application of Texas for admission to the Union came as a pleasant sur - prise to many Southerners . As a part of the Mexican Republic Texas had been free soil . But Texas was well suited to the needs of the cotton plant . If it were admitted to the Union , it would surely be a slave state or , perhaps , several slave states . The question of admitting Texas first came before Jackson . He saw that the admission of Texas would be strongly opposed in the North . So he put the whole matter to one side and would have nothing to do with it . Tyler acted very differently . Under his direction a treaty was made with Texas . This treaty provided for the admission of Texas to the Union . But the Senate refused to rat - ify the treaty . The matter , therefore , be - came the most important question in the presidential election of 1844.
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