The student's history of GeorgiaFrom the earliest discoveries and settlements to the end of the year 1883Adapted for general reading and the use of schools . ut when the arms were given up, the treacherousMexican caused the entire three hundred men to be tragic murder thrilled all Georgia, and caused intenseactive sympathy for Texas to prevail. A month after thismassacre, Houston defeated Santa Anna at San Jacinto, andmade a treaty of peace, after which the independence ofTexas was formally recognized by the United States. 11. Texas then, in 1837, sought to be annexed to theUnited St
The student's history of GeorgiaFrom the earliest discoveries and settlements to the end of the year 1883Adapted for general reading and the use of schools . ut when the arms were given up, the treacherousMexican caused the entire three hundred men to be tragic murder thrilled all Georgia, and caused intenseactive sympathy for Texas to prevail. A month after thismassacre, Houston defeated Santa Anna at San Jacinto, andmade a treaty of peace, after which the independence ofTexas was formally recognized by the United States. 11. Texas then, in 1837, sought to be annexed to theUnited States, and its admission into the Union became a 1842.] ADMINISTRATION OF MDONALD. 243 great national question. The Tyler treaty of annexation,made in March, 1844, was rejected by the United StatesSenate, and the question was thrown upon the country atlarge, when it became the great feature in the presidentialcanvass. Georgia favored the annexation, and gave its voteto Polk, the presidental candidate, who was in favor of ad-mitting Texas into the Union. In 1845, Texas was formallyannexed to the United States, and then admitted as a Stateinto the 244 STUDENTS HISTORY OF GEORGIA. [1843.
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