Manifest Destiny Outline Essay

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I. Manifest Destiny: South and North a. The Push to the Pacific i. Manifest Destiny- Americans had a right to develop the entire continent (showed their racial and cultural superiority) ii. "Oregon fever" thousands came to Oregon on the Oregon Trail many died along the way iii. Some pioneers left Oregon on the California Trail settling along the Californian coast iv. Rise of cattle ranching= new society and economy v. Many Americans migrants in California- didn’t assimilate into Mexican society and annexation to the United States b. The Plains Indians i. Plain Indians- nomadic buffalo hunters ii. Military forts divided white America from 1834 designated Indian Territory iii. Kiowas, Cheyennes, and Arapahos adopted horse culture- better hunting and stronger …show more content…

Whigs and democrats sought to preserve the union= in the creation of Compromise of 1850 by the Whigs ix. Compromise wanted Fugitive Slave Act, admission of CA to be a free state, and abolish slave trade in Washington DC mollifying the north and organize rest of the lands into New Mexico and Utah x. Compromise of 1850 help stop the succession of southern states, politicians in the south agreed to special conventions and to support secession in the future if Congress abolished slavery anywhere or refused to grant a territory slavery III. The End of the Second Party System, 1850-1858 a. Resistance of the Fugitive Slave Act i. Fugitive Slave Act- Northern states government determine the status of a runaway slave ii. Denied a black a jury trial and right to testify iii. Slave catchers (hostility in North and Midwest) abolitionist and free blacks defied the law iv. Northern enacted personal liberty laws and in Ableman v Booth- Supreme Court violate the constitution v. Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom Cabin evoked sympathy for slaves and led to North going against slavery by seeing it's cruelties vi. US Supreme Court upheld the Fugitive Slave

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