Northern Territory

century was a powder keg waiting to explode. The division of culture between the North and South was at an all-time high and in the early 1840’s the population of the United States was drastically changing. Settlers were rushing westward to form new territories while Immigrants from Europe were leaving their countries to settle in the United States. This movement of people into and around the United States led to the furthering of disunion and political developments, because it furthered…

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all the territories from Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. In the 1830s and 1840s propagandists and politicians, the rush of settlers behind the nation’s borders called for an invasion of some areas that were occupied by migrants. This movement was the Manifest Density of the U.S. to expand all the territories of North America including Mexico and Canada. Moreover, many Americans liked the idea of this annexation and they deeply believed that Americans should invade and occupy as many territories as…

southern and northern politicians from having to much power. However, all southern politicians soon hated the Missouri Comprise. When passing the Missouri Comprise, congress also prohibited territory within the Louisiana Purchase slavery. Thus, Nebraska could not practice slavery. In an effort to save his political party, however, Stephen A. Douglas, put forth a bill directly repealing the Missouri Comprise by granting popular sovereignty. The Kansas-Nebraska act infuriated northern senators.…

about an increase in sectionalism and conflict, it also allowed for the expansion of territory and fueled movement into the west. With people moving west into the newly claimed territory, there was controversy whether the territories would become free or slave states. According to the Missouri Compromise, all territory North of the 36˚ 30’ line would be admitted as…

From 1846-1848, the United States was engaged in an armed conflict with Mexico. The recent annexation of Texas in 1845 had already resulted in a substantial loss of territory claimed by the Mexican government. By the time the Americans had seized control of Mexico City after twenty-one months of fighting, casualties for both countries were over thirty-thousand. The war resulted in the U.S. acquisition of a majority of the modern American southwest. The U.S. expansion led to much debate over…

become a free state, as a benefit for the North. It would also ban the selling of slaves in Washington D.C., another benefit to the North. To make the south happy, it strengthened fugitive slave laws and settled the organizational details of the territories gained in the war with Mexico. New Mexico and Utah would be decided by popular sovereignty. The Fugitive Slave law became an issue in the North because they did not want to support any form of slavery no matter what. The nation did not want…

elections in 1860. The northern states opposed the expansion of slavery into many new territories and many people in congress had very little support in the South. Most abolitionists wanted to see the system of black slavery in the southern states end. Lincoln maintained a balanced stance on the emancipation of…

Antebellum era America and would contribute to the American Civil War. Westward expansion and the Missouri Compromise of 1820 would be a way to preserve unity within the Union, but over the next 30 years, ties between the Northern and Southern states would be strained as more territory is gained and the question regarding slavery’s place within these new lands. Through an analysis of book and article sources, one gains the idea that Westward expansion, slavery, and the place of Africans and…

certain laws were put in place, but did it bring peace between the northern and southern territories? The Manifest Destiny began when President Jefferson purchased the territory of Louisiana in 1803 from the French government. The Louisiana Purchase included the area from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and from New Orleans to Canada. This was a major purchase…