Name one main success and one main failure of the Republic of Texas government. Then, tell how these factors contributed to Texas annexation by the United States.

-Proponents

>Americans who believed in manifest destiny wanted to admit texas to the union

>supporters viewed the texas revolution in the spirit of the american revolution

>southerners supported annexation b/c texas allowed slavery and its admission would boost south's political power

-opponents

>americans were concerned that the US would have to bear the substantial texas debt

>northerners opposed annexation b/c it would spread slavery westward and increase slave states voting power in congress

>a major argument in the congress was that the constitution said nothing about admitting an independent nation