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  2. Texas annexation - Wikipedia

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    The Republic of Texas was annexed into the United States and admitted to the Union as the 28th state on December 29, 1845. The Republic of Texas declared independence from the 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.

  3. Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo - Wikipedia

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    The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo [a] officially ended the Mexican–American War (1846–1848). It was signed on 2 February 1848 in the town of Guadalupe Hidalgo . After the defeat of its army and the fall of the capital in September 1847, Mexico entered into peace negotiations with the U.S. envoy, Nicholas Trist.

  4. Texas secession movements - Wikipedia

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    Texas secession movements. Texas secession movements, also known as the Texas Independence movement or Texit, [1] [2] refers to both the secession of Texas during the American Civil War as well as activities of modern organizations supporting such efforts to secede from the United States and become an independent sovereign state .

  5. Texas delegation urges Congress to withhold aid to Mexico ...

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    A bipartisan group of Texas lawmakers are demanding House and Senate appropriators withhold funds for the country until Mexico lives up to its end of a 1944 water treaty that requires it to send 1 ...

  6. Texas history museum dissects treaty that ended Mexican ... - AOL

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    The treaty was signed in a town outside Mexico City called Guadalupe Hidalgo on Feb. 2, 1848. It was ratified by the U.S. Senate on March 10, 1848, and approved by Mexico's Congress on May 30, 1848.

  7. Texas Revolution - Wikipedia

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    t. e. The Texas Revolution (October 2, 1835 – April 21, 1836) was a rebellion of colonists from the United States and Tejanos (Hispanic Texans) against the centralist government of Mexico in the Mexican state of Coahuila y Tejas. Although the uprising was part of a larger one, the Mexican Federalist War, that included other provinces opposed ...

  8. Legal status of Texas - Wikipedia

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    The legal status of Texas is the standing of Texas as a political entity. While Texas has been part of various political entities throughout its history, including 10 years during 1836–1846 as the independent Republic of Texas, the current legal status is as a state of the United States of America. Due to Texas's unique history, United States ...

  9. Paris Agreement - Wikipedia

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    The Paris Agreement (or Paris Accords, Paris Climate Accords) is an international treaty on climate change that was adopted in 2015. The treaty covers climate change mitigation, adaptation, and finance. The Paris Agreement was negotiated by 196 parties at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference near Paris, France.