Colonists were expected to house British troops and treat them as honored guests.
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- Under the Missouri Compromise, Missouri was admitted as a slave state and Maine was admitted as a free state 1820
- The Mexican-American War ended with the United States gaining more than 500,000 square miles of Mexican territory 1846-1848
- Under the Compromise of 1850, California was admitted as a free state, and the territories of Utah and New Mexico were created 1850
- Abraham Lincoln was elected president of the United States 1860
- The Southern states formed a confederation known as the Confederate States of America 1860-1861
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