MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
MANIFEST DESTINY
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the territory was jointly occupied by the U.S. and Great Britain
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the rally cry for the territory was 54’40 or fight
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Oregon was admitted as a slave state to balance Texas
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the territory was divided at the 49th parallel
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Detailed explanation-1: -Texas entered the nation as a state that legalized slavery, and seceded from it 15 years later as part of the Confederate States of America. Shortly after the elction of Abraham Lincoln, the confederacy seceded from the United States to continue enslaving people of African descent.
Detailed explanation-2: -Slave States, U.S. History. the states that permitted slavery between 1820 and 1860: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Oregon Treaty In this climate of opinion, voters in 1844 elected James K. Polk, a slaveholder from Tennessee, because he vowed to annex Texas as a new slave state and obtain the Oregon Country solely for the U.S., as it had been shared with Great Britain since 1818.
Detailed explanation-4: -Slavery was a divisive issue in the United States. It was a major issue during the writing of the U.S. Constitution in 1787 and was the primary cause of the American Civil War in 1861. Just before the Civil War, there were 19 free states and 15 slave states.