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What kept Texas from becoming a state until 1845?
Some members of Congress feared it would tip the balance of power toward the slave states.
The U.S. had to wait for California to gain enough people before entering the Union as a free state.
The Senate tried to override President John Tyler's veto until they finally gained success the fourth time around.
Citizens were fearful that it would trigger a war with Mexico.
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Some members of Congress feared it would tip the balance of power toward the slave states.
Explanation: Annexation was controversial mainly because Texas would enter as a large slaveholding state, which many in Congress opposed as it would increase Southern political power. (Other worries — chiefly that Mexico would consider annexation an act of aggression — also mattered, and an annexation treaty failed in the Senate before Congress passed a joint resolution in 1845.)
Explanation: Annexation was controversial mainly because Texas would enter as a large slaveholding state, which many in Congress opposed as it would increase Southern political power. (Other worries — chiefly that Mexico would consider annexation an act of aggression — also mattered, and an annexation treaty failed in the Senate before Congress passed a joint resolution in 1845.)
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