MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
COMPROMISE OF 1850
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Slavery
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Mexican American War
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The border of the Oregon Territory.
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Whether or not to annex Texas.
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Detailed explanation-1: -In the 1850s, the conflict over slavery brought the United States to the brink of destruction. In the course of that decade, the debate over slavery raged in the nation’s political institutions and its public places. Congress enacted new policies related to slavery. The courts ruled on cases related to slavery.
Detailed explanation-2: -The acts called for the admission of California as a “free state, ” provided for a territorial government for Utah and New Mexico, established a boundary between Texas and the United States, called for the abolition of slave trade in Washington, DC, and amended the Fugitive Slave Act.
Detailed explanation-3: -POP Culture: 1850 "America” wins the first America’s Cup yacht race on August 22, 1851. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin is published in 1852. The December 30, 1853, “Gadsden Purchase” gives the United States a strip of land in the Southwest that would later become the states of New Mexico and Arizona.