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Age of a joint resolution (March 1, 1845) which required only a majority
vote in both houses of Congress. President Polk therefore took office
with the mandate of the country and the decision of both houses of the
retiring Congress, in favor of annexation. Mexico, in the meantime, had
offered to recognize the independence of Texas and to make peace with
her if the Texas Congress would reject the joint resolution, and refuse
the proffered annexation. This the Texas Congress refused, and with the
passage, by that body, of an act providing for annexation, the Mexican
minister was withdrawn from Washington, and Mexico began her
preparations for war. President Polk had taken office with the avowed
intention of buying California from Mexico. The rupture threatened to
prevent him from carrying this plan into effect. He therefore sent an
unofficial representative to Mexico in an effort to