westward expansion by Emma McCoy https://padlet.com/emmalmccoy0/nshxpud6qli5hwlx en-us 2025-01-19 20:05:37 UTC 2025-03-02 19:48:21 UTC hello@padlet.com 1819-1821 emmalmccoy0 https://padlet.com/emmalmccoy0/nshxpud6qli5hwlx/wish/3330867558 Thousands of Americans fled to Texas and settled there. Mexico wished to encourage settlement and passed colonization laws to encourage immigration.

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When new territory was gained, they ran into the Problem of making it free of slaves or having slave states. They came to the conclusion of bringing Maine, which was a free slave state, and Massachusetts, a slave state, to make it as equal as possible.

]]> 2025-02-17 05:31:39 UTC https://padlet.com/emmalmccoy0/nshxpud6qli5hwlx/wish/3330870895 1848 emmalmccoy0 https://padlet.com/emmalmccoy0/nshxpud6qli5hwlx/wish/3330872694 The treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed. This was a triumph for American expansion, including New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and portions of Colorado and Wyoming.

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