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People were opposed to the annexation of Texas because it would be admitted to the union as a slave state.
Texas would be admitted as a slave state, and it would upset the balance of the equal number of states being slave states and non-slave states. -1d4evr
It was delayed because the issue of Slavery and to balance whether it should be a free or slave state.
Because it brought about the issue of whether or not Texas would be admitted to the union (US as a whole) as a slave state or free state.
Under the Missouri Compromise of 1820 Missouri was admitted as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
It would cause war with Mexico and enhance slave power.
The colonists were all to to blame for the slave trade
The northern states did want Missouri admitted to the union as a slave state so as to balance the free slave trade.
Yes, Texas was a slave state.
Missouri was admitted as a slave state. This was part of the Missouri compromise in which Missouri would enter as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
Maine entered as a free state.
California was to be admitted as a free state.