Yes.
South- Texas was a slave state
The American Civil War.
Texas was a southern state during the Civil War.
Texas was a slave state and not a free state. Quoting Wikipedia - "A slave state, Texas declared its secession from the United States in early 1861, joining the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War."
a slave state
Kentucky was a slave state
Mississippi was a slave state until the end of the Civil War.
If the state was brought into the union it would upset the balance of free and slave states.
well, first off Texas had seceded from the union so it was a confederate state that believed in slaver, therefore when the union won back the confederate states Texas was no longer a slave state because the union had abolished slavery.
free state
No, it wasn't even a state.
Concerning Texas and The US Civil War, Texas joined the Confederacy. The State seceded in February of 1861.