Andrew Jackson's Speech on Texas Independence

Students read excerpts of President Jackson's address on Texas' Independence and potential annexation into the United States and answer 15 questions. This would be great for a sub and the answers are included where appropriate! The reading itself is a bit more than a page and a half.

Sample questions include: 
--When were the House of Representatives and the Senate willing to acknowledge Texas’ independence?
--Why would “responsibility” be involved when acknowledging independence?
--How could this lead to increased tension, or even war, between the United States and Mexico?
--Explain some of the consequences were Jackson to prematurely acknowledge Texas’ independence.
--Why does Jackson describe the issue of Texas Annexation a matter of “peculiar delicacy?”

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