1. Manifest Destiny & Crisis

2. What is Manifest Destiny?
*Manifest Destiny – the idea that the United States was meant to, as ordained by god or nature, to spread from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean

3. How did Manifest Destiny affect the United States?
Westward migration
Texas and the western territories
September 1836 – Texas, an independent nation, votes to join the United States
November 1844 – Oregon, an area claimed by multiple nations, is annexed by the United States
February 1848 – the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, between the U.S. and Mexico, gives part or all of California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, & Wyoming to the United States for $18.25 million

4. What crisis did westward migration draw the United States’ attention to?
*Popular Sovereignty – citizens of an area are allowed to decide issues for themselves
Slavery in the new territories was the predominant issue debated
1850 – U.S. is comprised of 15 free states and 15 slave states
Slaves states threaten secession if new states are admitted outlawing the practice
*Popular Sovereignty – citizens of an area are allowed to decide issues for themselves

5. How did the United States alleviate the crisis?
The Compromise of 1850
California is admitted to the Union as a free state
Popular sovereignty would determine slavery in the Utah and New Mexico
Texas’ border dispute with New Mexico was resolved
Texas received $10 million for the land loss
Slave trade, but not slavery, was abolished in Washington, D.C.
Fugitive Slave Law was adopted

6. Compromise of 1850 Map
1. Label the states/territories that composed the nation. 2. Create a key detailing free states, slave states, & areas determined by popular sovereignty then color the map accordingly. 3. Draw the Missouri Compromise Line and the Mason-Dixon Line.

7. What was the nation’s response to the Compromise of 1850 and the Fugitive Slave Act?
Northern abolitionist openly defied the acts practicing “civil disobedience”
The Underground Railroad was created to transport runaway slaves to freedom
Uncle Tom’s Cabin was published detailing the horrors of slavery and the mistreatment of the African-Americans
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Nebraska would be admitted to the U.S. as a free state and Kansas would be admitted as a slave state

8. What event did the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act spark?
Bleeding Kansas
As Kansas prepared to join the United States abolitionists and pro-slavery groups engaged in open armed combat…the massive amount of death garnered Kansas the unfortunate nickname
John Brown
An abolitionist who openly murdered pro-slavery citizens and even attacked and captured the U.S. Army arsenal at Harper’s Ferry
Brown was convicted of murder, treason, and larceny and sentenced to death…he became a martyr for the abolitionist cause

9. Why were the Kansas-Nebraska Act and John Brown influential?
Marked the 1st time in U.S. history that the nation was so divided on an issue that both sides resorted to violence against their fellow Americans
Both the pro-slavery and anti-slavery sides of the U.S. (the South and the North) began to accumulate massive amounts of arms for a coming conflict

10. John Brown Political Cartoon
Create a political cartoon depicting John Brown and your opinion of him
Cartoons must include the following:
Color and no stick figures
Take up at least 75% of the page
A title
An explanation of the cartoon’s depiction
Neatness