<span>The historical event which occurred almost a century after Massachusetts established the first town government in 1633 was <u />that <u>Georgia colony was founded by England</u>, in 1732.
Post Office Act was brought in 1872, so two centuries later. Benjamin Franklin was born in 1705, so that's half a century after the event. And Rhode Island declared slavery illegal towards the end of the 18th century.</span>
There was great tension between pro-slavery and anti-slavery representatives over how new territories won would handle the issue of slavery.
The Mexican-American War and the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, forced onto the remnant Mexican government, drew some criticism in the U.S. for their casualties, monetary cost, and heavy-handedness. Furthermore, the question of how to treat the new acquisitions also intensified the debate over slavery and in many ways inflamed it, as potential westward expansion of the institution took an increasingly central and heated theme in national debates preceding the American Civil War.
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