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WESTWARD EXPANSION AND ITS PROBLEMS

WESTWARD EXPANSION AND ITS PROBLEMS. BACKGROUND. Missouri Compromise settled the issue of slavery in Louisiana territory in 1821 . By the 1840s, the US believes it has the duty to expand westward to the Pacific Ocean. This idea is called Manifest Destiny!

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WESTWARD EXPANSION AND ITS PROBLEMS

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  1. WESTWARD EXPANSION AND ITS PROBLEMS

  2. BACKGROUND • Missouri Compromise settled the issue of slavery in Louisiana territory in 1821. • By the 1840s, the US believes it has the duty to expand westward to the Pacific Ocean. • This idea is called Manifest Destiny! • Also by 1840, sectionalism has become a major problem with people taking different views on slavery

  3. VIEWS ON SLAVERY

  4. Which of the three would you be?

  5. WESTWARD EXPANSION • US gets new land after winning the Mexican War in 1848. The land is called the Mexican Cession. • In 1849, the California Gold Rush quickly organizes California and it wants to enter the Union as a free state

  6. PROBLEMS & SOLUTIONS 1850 1854

  7. POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY • Popular Sovereignty is defined as allowing people of a territory to vote on the issue of slavery. **All these compromises were attempts to keep peace and avoid war…. ….THEY DON’T WORK!!!.....

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