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Unit 5 Test Notes, Sectional conflict, Westward Expansion - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Kansas
        
        Bleeding Kansas, Bloody Kansas, or the Border War was a series of violent civil confrontations in Kansas Territory, and to a lesser extent in western Missouri, between 1854 and 1859. It emerged from a political and ideological debate over the legality of slavery in the proposed state of Kansas.
      - Nebraska
  - - - “Free Staters” (N)
      - “Border Ruffians” (S)
- - - - Slave States and Free States
    - - Let the people vote whether they should be slave states or free states
    - - No slavery at all
  - - - The North got
        
        Slave trade banned in D.C.
        
        No abolition unless residents and MD consent
        
        Slave owners would be paid for loss
        
        CA admitted as a free state
      - The South Got
        
        Popular Sovereignty in New Mexico and Utah Territories
        
        Pay $10 Million to Texas to give disputed land to New Mexico territory.
        
        New and more effective Fugitive Slave Law
    - - Sen. Webster (W-MA) speaks to Northerners about passing stricter fugitive
        
        slave laws
        
        Southerners about danger of secession
      - Senate rejects compromise
      - sen. Douglas, Proposed introducing each resolution one at a time
      - President Taylor Dies!!!
        
        PRESIDENT MILLARD FILMORE GETS IT PASSED!!!👍🎉🎊
        
        September 1850, Compromise passed
        
        Crisis averted for the time being
- - - - Huge fines for those who help a fugitive(Slave)
- - - - Mexico invites U.S. settlers
      - Mexico wanted to improve economy
        
        Increase trade with US
        
        Increase manufactured goods in Mexico
        
        Laws which tied North provinces to US trade rather than rest of Mexico
    - - Manifest Destiny
      - Natural Resources and good farmland
      - Land grants by Mexican government = cheap large plots of land
  - - - Santa Anna marched toward San Antonio with 4,000 troops to make Texans obey laws
      - Austin returned to Texas in 1835 🡪 was convinced war was the only recourse
      - Austin called Texans to arms
  - - - Declaration of Independence on March 2, 1836
    - - Most Texans hoped US would annex Texas, but American public split
        
        Southerners sought to extend slavery
        
        Northerners feared unbalance in senate in favor of slave states, feared a potential war with Mexico
      - John Quincy Adams (as president wanted to Purchase Texas) opposed in 1838, also rejected by President Tyler’s Sec of State Daniel Webster in 1842
      - President James K. Polk, a slaveholder, firmly favored annexation, and Texas joined Dec. 29, 1845.
  - - - Polk has a vision of continental US from Atlantic to Pacific and to retire presidency after first term
      - Hostilities with Mexico flared again When US Annexed Texas in 1845.
      - Causes for Polk’s Military Action
        
        Issues over border of Mexico and Texas
    - - Southerners wanted war to gain more land to:
        
        Expand Slavery
        
        Gain more slave states in congress
      - North wanted Congress to pass Wilmot Provision
        
        Proposed Amendment to military appropriations Bill of 1846 that prohibited slavery in lands that might be gained from Mexico
        
        Southerners felt provision was attack on slavery, pushed for war even more.
- - - - to express their belief that the United States’ destiny was to expand to the Pacific
  - - - steamboat
      - canals
      - trains developed in 1840's
    - - People bought and sold goods, rather than making goods for themselves
    - - people in better contact
      - telegraph
    - - Northeast
        
        Shipping and manufacturing
      - West
        
        Farming cash crops: wheat and corn
      - South
        
        Cash Crops: tobacco, cotton, rice