Clenching the teeth puts pressure on the muscles, tissues, and other structures around your jaw. The symptoms can cause temporomandibular joint problems (TMJ). Grinding can wear down your teeth. It can be noisy enough at night to bother sleeping partners.
From 1846 to 1848 the United States fought a war with Mexico. North Americans now know the conflict as the Mexican War, or the Mexican-American War. As a result of the war, the United States took over the land that later became New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, California, Texas, and western Colorado.
After America was victorious in the war, Mexico was forced to cede California to the United States, and what are now the states of New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, Arizona and parts of Wyoming and Colorado. However American political parties were divided in the debate about whether to allow slavery in these new territories.