text:  the first of Texas, you know, the Lone Star Republic. But the purpose of that revolution, the Texas Revolution, was to instill a slave state in the West. In fact, everything was aimed at the West. Any state that came in had a choice of being either a slave or a free state. So you're right about that, but it wasn't offered as a slave state. They had to make the choice. Kansas was a, you know, the whole Mason-Dixon line and Bleeding Kansas was part of that. Now,