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4 giorni fa · In November 1845, Polk sent John Slidell, a secret representative, to Mexico City with an offer to the Mexican government of $25 million for the Rio Grande border in Texas and Mexico's provinces of Alta California and Santa Fe de Nuevo México.
2 giorni fa · In 1845, the Southern Baptists separated from the Triennial Convention in order to support slavery, which the southern churches regarded as "an institution of heaven". [6] [7] During the 19th and most of the 20th century, it played a central role in Southern racial attitudes, supporting racial segregation and the Lost Cause of the ...
2 giorni fa · Mexico refused to recognize the Republic of Texas, and intermittent conflicts between the two countries continued into the 1840s. The annexation of Texas as the 28th state of the United States, in 1845, led directly to the Mexican–American War.
2 giorni fa · It became the 28th state of the union in 1845. It is bordered on the north by Oklahoma, on the northeast by Arkansas, on the east by Louisiana, on the south by Mexico, and on the west by New Mexico. Its capital city is Austin, in the south-central part of the state.
5 giorni fa · Bernardino Rivadavia (born May 20, 1780, Buenos Aires [Argentina]—died September 2, 1845, Cádiz, Spain) was the first president (1826–27) of the Argentine republic (then known as the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata).
3 giorni fa · In 1845, during the reign of Queen Victoria, May 24, the queen’s birthday, was declared a holiday in Canada. After Victoria’s death in 1901, an act of the Canadian Parliament established Victoria Day as a legal holiday, to be celebrated on May 24 (or on May 25 when May 24 fell on a Sunday).
4 giorni fa · As a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1845, Navarro helped defeat a proposal that would deprive Tejanos of the right to vote. The secession crisis again tested Navarro's politics. He was torn between unionist sentiment and states’ rights principles but survived the crisis with his commitment to Texas intact.
