MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
COMPROMISE OF 1850
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A national dispute arose as to whether or not slavery would be permitted in the new Western territories.
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Warfare in Texas threatened the American heartland.
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Many American slaves escaped plantations and fought for Mexico.
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The war bankrupted the U.S.A. and forced it to import more slaves to improve the economy.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Mexican-American war (1846-1848) changed the slavery debate. It almost doubled the size of the United States and began a debate, between Northerners and Southerners, over what to do with the newly acquired land.
Detailed explanation-2: -Abolitionists saw the war as an attempt by the slave states to extend slavery and enhance their power with the creation of additional slave states out of the soon-to-be-acquired Mexican lands.
Detailed explanation-3: -Their transfer to the United States’ control also cut the territorial size of Mexico in half. On the surface, the war’s outcome seemed like a bonanza for the United States. But the acquisition of so much territory with the issue of slavery unresolved lit the fuse that eventually set off the Civil War in 1861.
Detailed explanation-4: -The war and treaty extended the United States to the Pacific Ocean, and provided a bounty of ports, minerals, and natural resources for a growing country. The abundance of lands also produced debates about extending slavery into the West, a dispute that would help spark a nation-defining civil war.