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less and thorough campaign of removal began, leading to an increase in raiding parties.
The turn of the decade was also marred by continual harassment from Mexican troops in
the south.
President Sam Houston and the republic lobbied Washington for annexation as a territ-
ory in order to gain assistance in settling both the border dispute with Mexico and issues
with Native Americans. A country for less than 10 years, Texas was annexed to the USA
during a state constitutional convention in 1845.
Until 1839 the city of Austin was called Waterloo. (It's still the name of Austin's best-known music shop,
Waterloo Records.)
