On October 13, 1845 a large majority of voters in the Republic approved an American offer of annexation. One of the motivations for annexation was that the Texas government had incurred huge debts which the United States agreed to assume upon annexation. In 1852, in return for this assumption of debt, a large portion of Texas-claimed territory, now parts of Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Wyoming, was ceded to the Federal government.

We didn't take anything, we paid off your enormous debt in exchange for land. Get your history right.