1. Manifest Destiny and crisis Pgs. 104 - 113
Chapter 2.4
Manifest Destiny and crisis
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2. Manifest Destiny Pushing West Texas & Oregon
People start moving west
There is fertile land & business opportunities
There are also Native Americans & other countries
Texas & Oregon
Mexico wanted immigration into Texas
“Remember the Alamo!”
“54° 40’ or Fight!
What is a possible consequence of our actions in Texas and Oregon?

3. Cont. War with Mexico And then there was fighting…
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
US Get 500,000 sq. miles of land
Mexico gets $18.25 million (about $.06 pre acre)

4. Slavery and Western Expansion
The Impact of the War with Mexico
How do you decide if slavery should be allowed in the new land?
Popular Sovereignty
Struggle for a Compromise
“There’s gold in them there hills!”
The Compromise of 1850
The Fugitive Slave Act
Can you really make the people obey a law the police don’t even want to enforce?

5. Cont. New Territorial Troubles Kansas Nebraska Act “Bleeding Kansas”
Let the people in these areas decide the slavery question
Nebraska was certain to go free, what about Kansas?
“Bleeding Kansas”
If everyone knows the question of slavery will be decided by popular vote, what might people do to try and tip the outcome their way?
As more people pour into the state violence increases
Potawatomie Creek

6. The Crisis Deepens Sectional Division Grows John Brown’s Raid
Dred Scott v. Sanford
John Brown’s Raid
Plan was to capture the Arsenal at Harper’s Ferry
Slaves would come to him, take the weapons & launch a rebellion
Brown is captured & executed
This is a White man leading a rebellion to free Black men

7. The Civil War This takes us up to the Civil War
We will not be studying this
It is extremely important
You’ve already done it in 8th grade
We have an excellent Junior/Senior class on it