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Bombardment of Veracruz, During the Spanish colonial era the Californias (i.e. the Baja California peninsula and Alta California) were sparsely settled After Mexico became independent it shut down the missions and reduced its military presence in 1842 the US minister in Mexico Waddy Thompson Jr suggested Mexico might be willing to cede Alta California to settle debts saying: "As to Texas I regard it as of very little value compared with California the richest the most beautiful and the healthiest country in the world . with the acquisition of Upper California we should have the same ascendency on the Pacific . France and England both have had their eyes upon it."[citation needed], Where demand for slaves was the strongest was in what was then the southwest of the country: Alabama Mississippi and Louisiana and later Texas Arkansas and Missouri Here there was abundant land suitable for plantation agriculture which young men with some capital established This was expansion of the white monied population: younger men seeking their fortune. . . Territories (later state borders Gadsden Purchase) Contents Grasses of the Potomac River Basin; .

Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States: Castries, Second Battle of Tabasco, See also: Proslavery and Fire-Eaters. Washington D.C. Business Directory Most northern states passed legislation for gradual abolition first freeing children born to slave mothers (and requiring them to serve lengthy indentures to their mother's masters often into their 20s as young adults) As a result of this gradualist approach New York did not fully free its last ex-slaves until 1827 Rhode Island had seven slaves still listed in the 1840 census Pennsylvania's last ex-slaves were freed in 1847 Connecticut's in 1848 and New Hampshire and New Jersey in 1865. . .