Answer: Americans weren’t so sure they wanted Texas. For one thing, Texas had a lot of debt that would need to be paid off. Even more serious, Texas allowed slavery, and it would come into the U.S. as a slave state. The fight over slavery was slowly tearing America apart, and one thing holding the nation together was carefully balancing the number of free and slave states.
Step-by-step explanation:
As if that weren’t enough, Mexico was threatening war if the U.S. annexed Texas. Mexico did not recognize Texas as independent, and it hoped to make Texas part of Mexico again. It wasn’t too surprising that the U.S. Congress rejected Texas.