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APUSH Review: The Mexican-American War As A Turning Point

Explore the Mexican-American War as a turning point with key concepts, impact on slavery debates, and its link to the Civil War. Get ready for APUSH success!

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APUSH Review: The Mexican-American War As A Turning Point

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  1. APUSH Review: The Mexican-American War As A Turning Point Everything You Need To Know About The Mexican-American War As A Turning Point To Succeed In APUSH

  2. The Mexican-American War • What was it? • War between the US and Mexico - started over Texas border dispute • When was it? • 1846 - 1848 • Who won the war? • US - gained the Mexican Cession • Issues? • SLAVERY!

  3. Key Ideas Before The War • Prior US expansion led to debates over slavery - LA Purchase -> Missouri Compromise • Both the North and South sought to have an equal number of slave and free states • Americans began moving into Texas in large numbers in the 1820s • TX declared independence in 1836 • Manifest Destiny swept the nation in the 1840s: • John O’Sullivan • Election of 1844 • Rise of the abolitionist movement: • William Lloyd Garrison’s The Liberator • Nat Turner’s Rebellion

  4. Key Ideas After The War • Manifest Destiny is complete • Fate of territories? • Enormous debates • Wilmot Proviso • Compromise of 1850 • Gadsden Purchase - purpose was for a transcontinental RR in the South ->

  5. Key Ideas After The War • Kansas-Nebraska Act - overturned MO Compromise • North is FURIOUS! Slavery issue • “Bleeding Kansas” - John Brown Part I • Emergence of the Republican Party • Free Soil Platform - stop the expansion of slavery

  6. So…… How Was The War A Turning Point? • Changes: • Growth of abolitionist movement after - Fugitive Slave Act • Increased sectional tensions - Bleeding Kansas, Caning of Charles Sumner • Popular Sovereignty • Continuities: • Restrictions and tightening of African American rights, especially the South • Spread of slavery out west (LA Purchase, and now Mexican Cession) • Different labor systems - slavery entrenched, north free labor • Possible Synthesis Point: • Connecting the Mexican-American War to the Civil War • Comparing debates over Mexican Cession to debates over expansion after the Spanish-American War

  7. Test Tips • Multiple-Choice and Short Answer: • Impacts of the war on slavery • Wilmot Proviso or opposition to the war as an excerpt • Manifest Destiny • Essays: • The war as a turning point for slavery debates • Evaluating how Manifest Destiny led to debates over slavery • Comparing and Contrasting arguments for and against expansion

  8. Thanks For Watching! • Check out my playlist on Turning Points • Best of luck in May!

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