Jacksonian Supporter
...hey disagreed on many opposing issues, slavery being a crucial one. The southern states were pro-slavery, for their whole economic system and profits depended on slave labor. However, religious New Englanders saw an insurgency in sight for the country, seeking to abolish slavery. The Missouri compromise was an agreement that the south would receive the state as an unrestricted slave state, and the north could relax to know that any other states admitted to the union north of Missouri was closed to the blight of slavery. This unfortunately put Jackson in a bad situation. Texas was largely settled by Americans, slaveholding Southerners, because it was sparsely colonized previously by the Spanish and Mexicans. Annexing Texas would mean admitting a pro-slave state into the Union, thus partially breaking the compromise considering it was not north of Missouri, and would anger many Northerners (Jackson supporters). Jackson was torn by the Texas issue. He did not like the Mexican overlords and admired the bravery of Sam Houston. He was not in haste to recognize Texas as an independent republic because he was seeking to get Martin Van...