1. Slavery and Westward Expansion

2. Why expand? More land Was it enough?
Florida, Louisiana territory, and Oregon Territory
Was it enough?
New Mexico, Texas, and California

4. Manifest Destiny
“The Americans claims by the right of our manifest destiny to overspread and possess the whole of the continent which Providence has given us for the development of the great experiment of liberty and…self-government entrusted to us.” - John L. O’Sullivan 1. According to this quote what is manifest destiny?

5. Moving West Sante Fe Trail, Oregon Trail, and California Trail
Start in St. Louis, Missouri
Wagon Trains
1851- Treaty of Fort Laramie
Texas revolts against Mexico ( )
Tejanos and Anglo-Texans
Santa Anna vs Sam Houston and the Alamo
Texas Annexation (1845)
Mexican American War ( )
James K. Polk
Between 1840 and ,000 americans will cross the continent to settle on the west coast
1851- ft Laramie- restricted plains natives to certain territories

6. Moving West Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Gadsden Purchase
New Mexico territory, California, US paid 18 million dollars
Gadsden Purchase
Gold Rush!!!! (1849)
16x population in 5 years
California and statehood-
Slave or free

8. Frederick Douglas Video
douglass/videos/the-meaning-of-july-4th-for-the-negro

9. Long Term Causes of the Civil War
Sectionalism
South, Northwest, and Northeast
Slavery- “Peculiar Institution”
Abolitionist movement- Frederick Douglas, Harriet Tubman, and William Lloyd Garrison
The Liberator and Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Westward Expansion
Republican Party (1854)
2/3 of whit population in south did not own slaves
Argued they were better of as slaves, better treated then factory workers in the north- fed clothed and housed by masters
Republican Party- was not against slavery in the south, just the expansion of it to the west
southerners felt they needed to keep a balance of control in legislative branch

10. Long Term Causes of the Civil War
The Breakdown of Compromise
The Missouri Compromise (1820)
Compromise of 1850
Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
Bleeding Kansas ( )
Wilmot Proviso (failed)

11. Long Term Causes of the Civil War
Differences in Constitutional Interpretation: State’s Rights
Nullification Crisis under Jackson
States created the federal government and therefore can nullify or secede