annexation

Examples of annexation in the following topics:

• Tyler and Texas

  • John Tyler's presidency was marked by a series of moves favoring American expansionism, including the annexation of Texas.
  • With their high visibility and energy, they were able to force the Democrats' hand in favor of annexation.
  • Tyler was unfazed, however, and he felt annexation was now within reach.
  • He called for Congress to annex Texas by joint resolution rather than by treaty.
  • Prior to annexation there was an ongoing border dispute between the Republic of Texas and Mexico.

• Annexing Texas

  • After a series of skirmishes with Mexico, the Republic of Texas won independence in 1836 and was annexed into the United States in 1845.
  • Believing that annexation would lead to war with Mexico, the administration declined Hunt's proposal.
  • Lamar, an opponent of annexation, as president of Texas in 1838, Texas withdrew its offer.
  • Texas would not become annexed to the United States until 1845 in the final days of President Tyler's administration.
  • Examine the economic motivations behind the Mexico and Texas war and the subsequent annexation of Texas by the United States

• The Ostend Manifesto and Cuba

  • The 1854 Ostend Manifesto justified the right of the United States to annex Cuba and implicitly justified war if Spain refused to sell the island.
  • Located 90 miles off the coast of Florida, Cuba had been considered a target for annexation by several presidential administrations.
  • President John Quincy Adams described Cuba and Puerto Rico as, “natural appendages to the North American continent,” and Cuba's annexation as, “indispensable to the continuance and integrity of the Union itself.”
  • The Spanish empire had been in gradual decline, but so long as control of Cuba did not pass to a stronger power such as Britain or France, most presidential administrations did not aggressively seek annexation.
  • Hence it was believed that the annexation of Cuba might greatly strengthen the position of Southern slaveholders against industrial Northern interests.

• The Philippine-American War

  • The conflict arose after the Philippine Revolution of 1896, from the First Philippine Republic's struggle to gain independence following annexation by the United States.
  • Some Americans, notably William Jennings Bryan, Mark Twain, Andrew Carnegie, Ernest Crosby, and other members of the American Anti-Imperialist League, strongly objected to the annexation of the Philippines.
  • Other anti-imperialists opposed annexation on racist grounds.
  • Among these was Senator Benjamin Tillman of South Carolina, who feared that annexation of the Philippines would lead to an influx of nonwhite immigrants into the United States.

• Polk and Expansion

  • Like most Southerners, he supported the annexation of Texas.
  • During his presidency, many abolitionists harshly criticized Polk as an instrument of "Slave Power" and claimed that he supported the annexation of Texas, as well as the later war with Mexico, for the purpose of spreading slavery.
  • The annexation angered Mexico, which had lost Texas in 1836, and Mexican politicians had repeatedly warned that annexation would lead to war.
  • Nevertheless, just days after the resolution passed Congress, Polk declared in his inaugural address that only Texas and the United States would decide whether to annex.
  • After the Texas annexation, Polk turned his attention to California, hoping to acquire the territory from Mexico before any European nation could do so.

• Mechanism of Electrophilic α-Substitution

  • Opening onto the cage there is a small annex that can hold a maximum of three hamsters.
  • Out of two hundred hamsters in the cage, there are an average of two hamsters in the annex at any given time.
  • The hamsters are free to enter and exit the annex, but any hamster that does so is marked by a bright red dye.
  • Although the hamster concentration in the annex is small relative to the whole population, it will not be long before all the hamsters are dyed red.
  • If we substitute molecules for hamsters, their numbers will be extraordinarily large (recall the size of Avogadro's number), but the equilibrium between keto tautomers (hamsters in the cage) and enol tautomers (hamsters in the annex) is so rapid that complete turnover of all the molecules in a sample may occur in fractions of a second rather than minutes or hours.

• The Mexican Borderlands

  • In 1845, the United States of America annexed the Republic of Texas and admitted it to the Union as the 28th state.
  • There was an ongoing border dispute between the Republic of Texas and Mexico prior to annexation.
  • El Paso was only taken under Texas governance by Robert Neighbors in 1850, over four years after annexation.

• The United Kingdom and Appeasement

  • Vivid memories of the horrors and deaths of the World War made Britain and its leaders strongly inclined to pacifism in the interwar era, exemplified by their policy of appeasement toward Nazi Germany, which led to the German annexation of Austria and parts of Czechoslovakia.
  • The first European crisis of Chamberlain's premiership was over the German annexation of Austria.
  • Even the strongest voices against annexation, particularly those of Fascist Italy, France and Britain were not backed by force.
  • Out of these attitudes grew what is known as the Munich Agreement, signed on 30 September 1938, which was a settlement permitting Nazi Germany's annexation of portions of Czechoslovakia along the country's borders mainly inhabited by German speakers.
  • Czechoslovakia was informed by Britain and France that it could either resist Nazi Germany alone or submit to the prescribed annexations.

• Cleveland and the Special Interests

  • When Cleveland took office he faced the question of Hawaiian annexation.
  • The Harrison administration had agreed with representatives of the new government on a treaty of annexation and submitted it to the Senate for approval.
  • Cleveland agreed with Blount's report, which found the populace to be opposed to annexation.
  • In his message to Congress, Cleveland rejected the idea of annexation and encouraged Congress to continue the American tradition of non-intervention.

• The Breakdown of Sectional Balance

  • The Mexican–American War was an armed conflict between the United States and Mexico from 1846-1848 (following the U.S. annexation of Texas), which ended in U.S. victory.
  • In 1836, a group of American-born Texans led a revolution against Santa Ana's Mexican government and declared Texas an "independent republic," while simultaneously applying to the United States for annexation.Mexico, torn apart by civil war, refused to recognize Texan independence and threatened war with the United States if annexation occurred.
  • In 1840, territorial expansion became a priority for President James Polk, as Texas was annexed shortly before his inauguration.Believing in the "Manifest Destiny" of the United States to expand to the Pacific, Polk supported "Texans in their efforts to seize all land to the Rio Grande and claim the river as their southern and western border, in spite of the fact that Mexico claimed the Nueces River as the Texan border.With the annexation of Texas and the growing conflict between Mexicans and Texans, the Mexican government broke diplomatic relations with the United States.