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title: "Why did Congress and Presidents Jackson/Van Buren refuse to allow Texas to join the United States in the 1830s? How did this foreshadow future events?"  
description: "Why did Congress and Presidents Jackson/Van Buren refuse to allow Texas to join the United States in the 1830s? How did this foreshadow future events?"  
author: "Peterson arnold"  
published: 2018-04-26  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/42000/why-did-congress-and-presidents-jackson-van-buren-refuse-to-allow-texas-to-join-the-united-states-in-the-1830s-how-did-this-foreshadow-future-events  
category: "history, politics & society"  
tags: ["usa history"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Why did Congress and Presidents Jackson/Van Buren refuse to allow Texas to join the United States in the 1830s? How did this foreshadow future events?

Why did [Congress](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/34723/the-telangana-government-has-signed-a-technology-partnership-agreement-with-which-country-at-the-world-congress-on-information-technology-wcit-2018) and Presidents Jackson/Van Buren refuse to allow Texas to join the [United States](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/41822/what-was-the-costliest-battle-in-the-history-of-the-united-states-marines-corps) in the 1830s? How did this foreshadow future events?


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