One of the main reasons why Congress did not initially annex Texas is because it would create an imbalance of free and slave states in Congress.
During the early to mid 19th century, the United States was constantly expanding their territory. This was due in large part to the concept of manifest destiny. As the US was spreading their influence, they ran into the problem of whether or not these new territories and states would have the institution of slavery.
Southern states favored new territories and states having slavery while Northern states did not favor slavery in these new territories. The reason behind the Northern states includeds:
1) Influences from the abolitionist movement.
2) Northerners did not want slave states to have more representatives in Congress than they did.
This caused Texas annexation to be delayed, since Texas would be admitted as a slave state. This would throw off the balance of free and slave states represented in Congress, giving slave states the advantage.
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I helped them by being able to trade more goods faster and made the whites usually more "powerful" than the blacks
<span>c. The United States entered World War II because Japan attacked its navy.
Not only had Japan attacked the US naval base at Pearl Harbor, but that was an attack against American home soil, in the US territory of Hawaii. (Hawaii later became a state, in 1959.) The next day, President Roosevelt went before Congress and described December 7, 1941 as "a date that will live in infamy" because of the Japanese attack. Congress declared war against Japan, drawing the USA into World War II. Germany and Italy, allied with Japan, responded with a declaration of war against the USA, and the USA responded by declaring war against Germany and Italy as well.
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