Western Expansion and Slavery

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Manifest Destiny was the idea that the nation was meant to spread all the way to the Pacific.

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the nation was meant to spread all the way to the Pacific.

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What president bought the Louisiana Purchase?

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Thomas Jefferson

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Louisiana was purchased from

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France

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incorporating new land to the west of the original eastern and southern states

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western expansion

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The Missouri Compromise tried to solve the issue of slavery being aloud in western territory by

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Prohibiting slavery north of Missouri’s southern boarder

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What is the definition of Tejanos?

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Native Texan who speak Spanish

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Texas won its independence from

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Mexico

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In 1848, the Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo ended the Mexican-American War and added more than 1 million square miles to the United States. This territory was known as

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Mexican Cession Territory

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Kentucky Senator Henry Clay proposed this compromise that included California would enter the Union as a free state.

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The Compromise of 1850

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Who proposed two new states, Kansas and Nebraska, be allowed to use popular sovereignty, even though these states were in the Louisiana Purchase territory?

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Stephen A. Douglas