USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In 1850, Southerners wanted to exercise the provision to create another slave state from Texas to balance the admission of California as a free state.

Detailed explanation-2: -In 1844, Congress finally agreed to annex Texas. On December 29, 1845, Texas entered the United States as a slave state, broadening the irrepressible differences in the United States over the issue of slavery and setting off the Mexican-American War.

Detailed explanation-3: -Texas was annexed by the United States in 1845 and became the 28th state. Until 1836, Texas had been part of Mexico, but in that year a group of settlers from the United States who lived in Mexican Texas declared independence.

Detailed explanation-4: -The legislation proposed to recognize Texas as a slave state which would retain all its vast public lands, as well as its bonded debt accrued since 1836.