Most of the american settlers in texas went there because of:

In italy, the distance between milan in the north and palermo,sicily, in the south is about 550 miles. in the united states, the distance betweenboston, massachusetts, and savannah, georgia, is about 900 miles. do you think the american revolutionaries of 1776 in the 13 colonies faced some of the same challenges as the patriots who struggled for italian unity in the 1860s?  

Could anything have been done through compromise to stop it, or did it have to happen?

Due to seriouse dogmatic differences between the orthodox church and the western christian churches, the orthodox xhurch is not in communication with the roman catholic and protestant communities