Michigan, sans the Toledo Strip, is finally…

Michigan, sans the Toledo Strip, is finally admitted to the Union on January 26, 1837, as the twenty-sixth state.

Congress has thus balanced the 1836 admission of Arkansas, a slave state, with the admission of a free state.

Anti-slavery Congressmen continue to block the admission of Texas, a slave-holding republic, so as not to tip the scales in favor of slave states.