The river served as the western boundary of the United States until the Texas Annexation in 1845.

In 1841, the Texians sent an expedition, ostensibly for trade but with hopes of occupying the claimed area, but the expedition was captured by Mexican troops ; the United States inherited the unenforced claim to the east bank with the Texas Annexation in 1845.

* Silby, Joel H. Storm over Texas: The Annexation Controversy and the Road to the Civil War.

He had opposed the Annexation of Texas but vowed to defend the new state once it was annexed late in 1845.

Although Mexico ceded Alta California and Santa Fe de Nuejiijij o Mexico, the text of the treaty did not list territories to be ceded, and avoided the disputed issues that were causes of war: the validity of the 1836 secession of the Republic of Texas, Texas's unenforced boundary claims as far as the Rio Grande, and the 1845 Texas Annexation by the US.

The Red River formed part of the US-Mexico border from the Adams-Onís Treaty ( in force 1821 ) until the Texas Annexation or Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.

* March 1, 1845: Resolution for the Annexation of Texas, ( Admitted in the next Congress, December 29, 1845 )

Clark served in the Texas Annexation Convention and two terms as a state representative in the Texas Legislature before fighting in the Mexican-American War.

The Arkansas from its headwaters to the 100th meridian west formed part of the US-Mexico border from the Adams-Onís Treaty ( in force 1821 ) until the Texas Annexation or Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo.

American exceptionalism is closely tied to the idea of Manifest Destiny, a term used by Jacksonian Democrats in the 1840s to promote the acquisition of much of what is now the Western United States ( the Oregon Territory, the Texas Annexation, the Gadsden Purchase, and the Mexican Cession ).

As the Republic of Texas ambassador to the United States Van Zandt was instrumental in crafting the Annexation Treaty of the Republic of Texas to the U. S.

Texas Annexation of 1845: The independent Republic of Texas long sought to join the U. S., despite Mexican claims and the warning by Mexican leader Antonio López de Santa Anna warned that this would be " equivalent to a declaration of war against the Mexican Republic.

Texas from Independence to Annexation.

* Ordinance of Annexation, Approved by the Texas Convention on July 4, 1845.

Discourse on Slavery and the Annexation of Texas.

“ Narrative History of Texas Annexation .” Texas State Library and Archives Commission.

* Silbey, Joel H. Storm over Texas: The Annexation Controversy and the Road to Civil War.

* Smith, Justin H. The Annexation of Texas.

In 1866, a joint resolution of the Texas Legislature was passed to have his body reinterred to the Texas State Cemetery in Austin The re-interment occurred in 1867.

Upon hearing of Polk's election to office, Tyler urged Congress to pass a joint resolution admitting Texas to the Union ; Congress complied on February 28, 1845.

Nonetheless, 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.

The Texas Congress even passed a resolution over Houston's veto claiming the Californias for Texas.

* A state sovereignty resolution has been prefiled for the upcoming 2011 session of the Texas Legislature ( a prior 2009 resolution did not pass ).

When the Senate could not muster a two-thirds vote to pass a treaty of annexation with Texas, Calhoun devised a joint resolution of the Houses of Congress, requiring only a simple majority ; Texas joined the Union.

After an earlier attempt to acquire Texas by treaty had failed to receive the necessary two-thirds approval of the Senate, the United States annexed the Republic of Texas by a joint resolution of Congress that required simply a majority vote in each house of Congress.

Initially, Walker County was named for Robert J. Walker, a legislator from Mississippi who introduced into the United States Congress the resolution to annex Texas.

* 1991 Texas legislature adopts a resolution recognizing the Boerne Village Band for " keeping alive German music as a part of our heritage.

In 1971, the Texas legislature unanimously passed a resolution honoring DeSalvo in an April Fool's Day joke made by Waco Representative Tom Moore, Jr .. Moore admitted to the joke – made to prove his colleagues were not putting due diligence into researching legislation they were passing – and withdrew the resolution.

The episode aired on September 30, 2009, wherein he successfully met the challenge In 2012, The Whitecaps installed a new scoreboard and high resolution video display screen which was installed by TS Sports out of Dallas, Texas.

The resolution declared that Texas would be admitted as a state as long as it approved annexation by January 1, 1846, that it could split itself up into four additional states, and that possession of the Republic ’ s public land would shift to the state of Texas upon its admission.

Not long afterward, Andrew Jackson Donelson, the American chargé d ' affaires in Texas and the nephew of former president Andrew Jackson, presented the American resolution to President Anson Jones of Texas.

The joint resolution and ordinance of annexation contain language permitting the formation of up to four additional states out of the former territories of the Republic of Texas:

The joint resolution required that if any new states were formed out of Texas ’ lands, those north of the Missouri Compromise line would become free states and those south of the line could choose whether or not to permit slavery.

A few days before I saw your mention of what Texas Liberals were doing to promote `` Louis Capet '' ( The Week '', June 3 ), another analogy had occurred to me.

No matter how determined or wealthy boating lovers of the Southwest had been, for example, they could never have created anything approaching the fifty square-mile Lake Texoma, located between Texas and Oklahoma, which resulted when the Corp of Army Engineers dammed the Red River.

From the standpoint of the army of duffers, however, this was easily the most heartening exhibition they had had since Ben Hogan fell upon evil ways during his heyday and scored an 11 in the Texas open.

Together with earlier arrivals to the United States ( including the indigenous American Indians, Hispanic and Latino Americans, particularly in the West, Southwest, and Texas ; African Americans who came to the United States in the Atlantic slave trade ; and early colonial migrants from Britain, France, Germany, Spain, and elsewhere ), these new waves of immigrants had a pro profound impact on national or regional cuisine.

Hunt offered to buy the Cardinals and move them to Dallas, Texas, where he had grown up.

* 1922 – The first Aggie Muster is held as a remembrance for fellow Texas A & M graduates who had died in the previous year.

The theme song introduces the viewer to the world's most fortunate hunting accident – whereby Jed shoots at game but instead hits " black gold, Texas tea ": he had discovered oil.

Guerrero hit 29 home runs and had a. 300 batting average in the 2010 season with the Texas Rangers.

" The Berliner Zeitung " reported a few days later that Haley had collapsed after a performance in Texas and been taken to the hospital in his home town of Harlingen, Texas.

In his 1917 draft registration, Jefferson gave his birth date as October 26, 1894, further stating that he then lived in Dallas, Texas, and that he had been blind from birth.

I regret that .... I wish I had gotten up then and seized the moment to set a tone, a tone that I had set in Texas, a positive and inclusive tone.

The fact that Wills made his professional debut in blackface was commented on by Wills ' daughter, Rosetta: " He had a lot of respect for the musicians and music of his black friends ," Rosetta is quoted as saying on the Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys Web site.

He became an enormous draw in Los Angeles, where many of his Texas, Oklahoma and regional fans had also relocated during the Great Depression and World War II in search of jobs.

The Canon Pocketronic was a development of the " Cal-Tech " project which had been started at Texas Instruments in 1965 as a research project to produce a portable calculator.

He had to work with the Democratic Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson in the Senate and Speaker Sam Rayburn in the House, both of Texas.

The Ninth Circuit, analyzing the Supreme Court decision in Lawrence v. Texas ( 2003 ), determined that DADT had to be subjected to heightened scrutiny, meaning that there must be an " important " governmental interest at issue, that DADT must " significantly " further the governmental interest, and that there can be no less intrusive way for the government to advance that interest.

The Republic of Texas, which had been independent since the Texas Revolution of 1836, is thereupon admitted as the 28th U. S. state.

Holly had already told his hometown friends in Texas that he would be singing " Oh, Boy!

The Marlins had the second overall pick in the 1999 draft and drafted Josh Beckett from the state of Texas.

Madero set up shop in San Antonio, Texas, and quickly issued his Plan of San Luis Potosí, which had been written during his time in prison, partly with the help of Ramón López Velarde.

After a drought had ruined crops in several Texas counties, Congress appropriated $ 10, 000 to purchase seed grain for farmers there.