It was a direct cause of the Mexican-American War.
It did not annex Texas.
They were afraid it would get them into a war with Mexico.
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.
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.
Texas, even though Mexico still felt Texas was their land which was a major factor in starting the war
Because they had a lot of debt and Texas and Mexico had conflict(not friendly, seperate, no peace, at the verge of war).
Border disputes and Manifest Destiny.
At midnight
1948, one more Free-state had to be emitted and terms with mexico got weaker until war.
because the us government was faced with a threat of war with mexico, and thus could not annex them
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.