SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
SOUTHERN SECESSION
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Question
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Southerners were not in the least bit interested in moving west.
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Southerners wanted to expand slavery westward.
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Southerners feared a loss of political influence if slavery did not spread west.
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The spread of slavery was controversial.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The sparsely populated western regions of the continent became folded into a nation with enormous potential for power. The hundreds of thousands of settlers who moved west established new communities. New territories gave the country access to greater natural resources and the Pacific trade.
Detailed explanation-2: -A significant push toward the west coast of North America began in the 1810s. It was intensified by the belief in manifest destiny, federally issued Indian removal acts, and economic promise.
Detailed explanation-3: -Land and Technology There were many forces that drove Westward Expansion. At this time the U.S. population was growing quickly. Between 1790 and 1860 the US population grew from about 4 million to 21 million! These people crowded the East, and many people began to look West for more space, land, and opportunity.
Detailed explanation-4: -Thousands of people crossed the Rockies to the Oregon Territory, which belonged to Great Britain, and thousands more moved into the Mexican territories of California, New Mexico and Texas. In 1837, American settlers in Texas joined with their Tejano neighbors (Texans of Spanish origin) and won independence from Mexico.