Texas joined the US as one state in 1845, but the receipts show it was supposed to be five. The 1845 annexation agreement gave Texas the legal right to divide into up to five separate states. That's 10 senators instead of 2. Slave states wanted it for more power in Congress, but the Civil War stopped it. The law was never repealed. Technically, Texas could still split. But Texans can't agree on anything, so it stays one state. We could've been five states with five governors. That's the most Tex