fear that it would lead to war
they feared texas would join britian and declare an end to slavery
Well no one really knows the correct answer because all documentation of the annexation of Texas Was lost in a tragic fire which killed approximately 40 people.
The United States had attempted to balance the number of slave states with the number of states that opposed slavery. By allowing Texas to become a part of the United States, the balance would have shifted.
After Texas gaining their independence from Mexico. Texas asked the US to annex them thus entering the union as a slave state.
Texas practiced slavery, and the US already had adequate problems maintaing a balance between the north and the south on that issue. Texas had made an effort to go it alone as a Republic, but it lacked recognition by most of the world and had created an enormous burden of debt. Texas needed a handout in a big way.
fear that it would lead to war
It was delayed because the issue of Slavery and to balance whether it should be a free or slave state.
annexation
Of course it did!
northerners opposed because they said the annexation would bring more power to the south and spread slavery which they didnt want.
They hoped to build a strong Texas also because the United States wanted some of Texas. Some of which because slavery. The US annexation of Texas and Thorton affair. When some of them was pro slavery.
The northern state who opposed slavery.
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The Northeast was the region most opposed to the annexation of Texas in the mid-19th century. Many in the Northeast saw the annexation of Texas as a move that would expand slavery and upset the balance between free and slave states. They were concerned about the potential expansion of slavery and the implications it would have for their own state economies and political power.
They thought that granting popular sovereignty would allow slavery
Generally speaking, Southerners supported the annexation, while Northerners had fears. The main issue involved was slavery. Texas was annexed in 1845.