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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 VIEWS ON SLAVERY IN THE WEST Against slavery in west
ABOLITIONISTS Believe people in territory should decide MODERATES Want slavery to extend to Pacific Ocean SLAVEOWNERS

4 Which of the three would you be?

5 WESTWARD EXPANSION US gets new land after winning the Mexican War in 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 PROBLEM LAND Mexican Cession becomes organized
1850 1854 PROBLEM LAND Mexican Cession becomes organized Land in Louisiana territory above 36.30 COMPROMISE of 1850 California enters as a state. free 2. Utah & New Mexico open to slavery by popular sovereignty 3. No slave trade in Washington DC 4. New Fugitive Slave Law 5. Settle a boarder dispute between Texas & New Mexico Kansas-Nebraska Act Divides territory into 2 territories: Kansas & Nebraska Opens both territories to slavery by popular sovereignty

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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