They were afraid it would get them into a war with Mexico.
The north did not want to annex Texas because they did not want to start a war with Mexico. Doing so would also have created an unbalanced power in the south and north.
he feared the war with Mexico
The vote in congress to annex Texas
The US annexed Texas from Mexico in 1844 after James K Polk won the presidential election.
Texas was a slave holding Republic and would become a slave holding state.
Because they had a lot of debt and Texas and Mexico had conflict(not friendly, seperate, no peace, at the verge of war).
Texas, even though Mexico still felt Texas was their land which was a major factor in starting the war
The republic of Texas
1948, one more Free-state had to be emitted and terms with mexico got weaker until war.
in 1844
Texas which they won (gained their independence from Mexico) and then asked the US to annex them and they were annexed in the Union as a slave state.