Technological progress is defined as D) an improvement in the efficiency with which an economy uses its resources and factors of production to produce increased output.
During that era, the states in America was divided between Free states (where slavery is not allowed ) and slave states (Where Slavery allowed)
Back then , Texas and Florida got a lot of plantations that's heavily depended on slave , so if they were acquired , they would be part of slave states.
This will destroy the balances between slaves and and free states in the congress , ( the slave states congress will have the majority power), so the statehood was delayed
Transport of goods through the red sea directly to the Mediterranean in stead of going all the way around africa.
