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California and Texas both wanted to become states. The existing states, however, could not agree on the issue of slavery. A balance was struck. California was admitted as a free state. Texas remained as a slave state. However, parts of Texas

became new territories where people could decide the slavery issue for themselves. This was known as the ______________


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The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, signed on February 2, 1848, ended the Mexican-American War in favor of the United States. The war had begun almost two years earlier, in May 1846, over a territorial dispute involving Texas. The treaty added an additional 525,000 square miles to United States territory, including the land that makes up all or parts of present-day Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. Mexico also gave up all claims to Texas and recognized the Rio Grande as America’s southern boundary.

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