PLEASE ANSWER FAST!! Which statement describes a reason why the U. S. wanted to delay Texas annexation?

a decrease in the demand for slave labor

paying off debt to slave owners

Texas granting freedom to its slaves

Texas being admitted as a slave state

Texas being admitted as a slave state.

At this time the U.S. was having a struggle of maintaining an equal balance between slave and free states. Texas joining the Union would mean an imbalance because Texas was a country with slaves and insisted on maintaining it.

Both countries had to aprove annexation.