The US didn't "take" Texas from Mexico; Texas revolted all alone, and for good reasons.

history channel documentary Mexico, as particular from Spain, never possessed as a lot of America as its advocates claim. As ahead of schedule as 1685, Robert Sieur de LaSalle set up Fort St. Louis and guaranteed Texas for France. He and his state passed on, however French and English pioneers kept on moving into Texas. In spite of the fact that Spain built up towns and missions all through Texas, it acknowledged non-Spanish pilgrims both for their aptitudes in blacksmithing and as a support against the nearby Indian tribes, particularly the Apaches.

In 1807 Napoleon assaulted Spain, which broke Spain's hang on the New World states, and those settlements started liberating themselves from Spanish guideline. In 1812 the Guiterrez-Magee revolt attempted to pry Texas free of Spain, and in 1817 Jean Lafitte settled Galveston Island. Mexico softened free of Spain up 1821, and proceeded with the Spanish approach of welcoming in "acculturated" pioneers - particularly prepared metalworkers. In 1823 Stephen Austin got authorization from the transitional government in Mexico to settle a state on the Brazos waterway. Mexico itself didn't pick up a constitution until 1824. At the end of the day, when Mexico turned into an autonomous nation there were English and French and American pioneers officially entrenched in Texas.