Manifest Destiny: The Abolitionist Movement

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Behind the scenes of Manifest Destiny What Really transformed the country was the ability to move products across great distances and the Erie Canal was a huge turning point for economic growth in America. Opened in 1825, The Erie Canal was the engineering breakthrough of the nineteenth century: Its Four waterways would connect manufacturing and eastern ports with the rest of the country. Farmers could now ship their goods, they can move out, come down the Hudson river and this way of commute became a part of a global economy. This Moment would bring about the thought of expansion which will become the fuse to enormous economic growth that will ultimately in the next century, becomes the Belief of manifest destiny. The nation that both reflected the pride which reflected American nationalism, And the idealistic image of social perfection through god and the church caused the nation to separate. As many people will support it, several will oppose The abolitionists sought the immediate liberation of all slaves and the end of racial separation and isolation. Advocating for prompt liberation distinguished abolitionists from more direct anti-slavery advocates who contended for repressive liberation, and from free-soil activists who looked to confine slavery to existing areas and prevent its spread further west. Just years before the Mexican war, abolitionists like john Quincy Adams, sixth president of the United States: supported the annexation of Oregon in 1846 which spread from the pacific coast to the Rocky Mountains. But once the abolitionists caught on to the idea of new territory becoming pro slavery states they quickly set against it. Abolitionists thoughts became progressively conspicuous in Northern places of worship and politics in the 1830’s which contributed to the territorial ill will amongst the North and South, essentially dividing the nation in

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