they feared Texas would become another slave state
Yes, Texas was a slave state.
the compromise of 1850
Texas was a slave holding Republic and would become a slave holding state.
Yes, Texas as a Republc, as a US State, and as a Confederate state was a slave state. Mexico had abolished slavery in 1826 and if a Texas slave could make it across the river they were free to become colonists in Mexico.
slave states
no it was slave free
It was delayed because the issue of Slavery and to balance whether it should be a free or slave state.
why did president Tyler want to annex Texas
Texas did enter the Union as a slave state. This is why it took so long between the time the Union told Texas they could become a state and the time Texas actually became a state. The debate went on about this in Congress for four years.
yes!
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."