MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
MANIFEST DESTINY
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Question
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Congress wanted to keep a balance of slave and free states in the Union
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Neither one had a large enough population
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They had no organized government
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They were in continual conflict with neighboring territories
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Detailed explanation-1: -The application was delayed because admitting Florida as a slave state would upset the balance in Congress. In 1845, Iowa joined the union as a free state, and Florida joined the nation as a slave state. American settlers in the Mexican territory of Texas rebelled against Mexico.
Detailed explanation-2: -Slavery and Cotton. The question of whether or not the United States should annex Texas came at a time of increased tensions between the Northern and Southern states of the Union over the legality and morality of slavery; thus the possibility of admitting Texas as another slave state proved to be contentious.
Detailed explanation-3: -One reason that some people did not want to annex Texas as a state was the issue of slavery. Texas was a slave state and would have tipped the balance between the free states and slave states toward slavery. A second issue with making Texas a state was the worry that doing so would incite war with Mexico.