Historical Timeline
| 1844 |
Congress narrowly approves the annexation
of Texas. |
| 1845 |
Slaveholding Texas is annexed to the
United States and admitted as a slave state, thus sparking the
Mexican War. |
| 1848 |
Mexico cedes more than half of its
territory to the U.S., including New Mexico and California in
addition to Texas. |
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Slave Populations:
 | 1830: 58,161 |
| 1860: 182,566 |
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