MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
MANIFEST DESTINY
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Gave many people jobs by becoming the North’s biggest business in the 1840s and improved the lives of many people
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Because they fought for public education and partly because of his efforts in 1839 Mass. opened the nation’s first state-supported normal school. Other states also adopted his reforms. He believed education was a key to wealth and economic opportunity for all.
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Claimed it would only create tension between the North and South. They also just weren’t big fans of slavery in general, so they didn’t want to spread it.
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Because an Angel was leading a group holding telegraph wires, native animals and people fleeing, trains/railroads, skeletons on the ground
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Detailed explanation-1: -The North wanted to block the spread of slavery. They were also concerned that an extra slave state would give the South a political advantage.
Detailed explanation-2: -Why did Northern workers and immigrants oppose slavery? because slaves did not work for pay. They feared managers would purchase slaves and they would lose their jobs. They feared that they would be forced to work as slaves as well.
Detailed explanation-3: -There were also northerners who resisted the war effort. Some were pacifists. Others were white men who resented the fact that the army was drafting them at the same time it excluded blacks. And there were whites who refused to fight once black soldiers were admitted.
Detailed explanation-4: -The issue of slavery caused tension between the North and South. Some Northern workers and immigrants opposed slavery because it was an economic threat to them; they feared slaves would replace them in the workplace.