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California as a free state
Slave trade outlawed in Washington D.C.

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Went into the Union as a no-slave state.

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Used to trade on from east to west.

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Went west to find religious persecution.

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Used to find new, fertile soil.

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Gave us our border between Texas and Mexico.

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Most of the fighting in the Mexican-American war was fought in Mexico.

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Texas was added to America when they got the Oregon territory.

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Wasn't recognized as a state because they didn't want to disrupt the slave to non slave state balance.

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One of the main sites for the Mexican-American war.

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Texas and California were the largest of the new territories added to the United States.

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The idea that it was Americans right to move and settle across the whole country

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From the Atlantic ocean to the Pacific.