Unit 1 - Manifest Destiny & Crisis PPT Notes
What is Manifest Destiny?
*______– the idea that the ______was meant to, as ordained by god or nature, to spread from the ______Ocean to the ______Ocean.
How did Manifest Destiny affect the United States?
Westward migration
Texas and the western territories:
September ______– ______, an independent nation, votes to join the United States
November 1844 – Oregon, an area claimed by multiple nations, is annexed by the United States
February ______– the ______of Guadalupe Hidalgo, between the ______and ______, gives part or all of California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, & Wyoming to the United States for $______million
What crisis did westward migration draw the United States’ attention to?
*______– citizens of an area are allowed to decide issues for themselves
______in the new territories was the predominant issue debated
1850 – U.S. is comprised of _____ free states and _____ slave states
Slaves states threaten ______if new states are admitted outlawing the practice.
How did the United States alleviate the crisis?
The ______of 1850
______is admitted to the Union as a free state
Popular ______would determine slavery in the Utah and New Mexico
Texas’ border dispute with ______was resolved
Texas received $______million for the land loss
Slave ______, but not slavery, was abolished in Washington, D.C.
Fugitive Slave Law was adopted
Slide showing Compromise of 1850 Map
What was the nation’s response to the Compromise of 1850 and the Fugitive Slave Act?
______openly defied the acts practicing “civil disobedience”
The ______was created to transport runaway slaves to freedom
______was published detailing the horrors of slavery and the mistreatment of the African-Americans
●Kansas-Nebraska Act
______would be admitted to the U.S. as a free state and ______would be admitted as a ______state
What event did the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act spark?
●______Kansas
As ______prepared to join the United States abolitionists and pro-slavery groups engaged in open armed combat…the massive amount of death garnered Kansas the unfortunate nickname.
●John Brown - An ______who openly murdered pro-slavery citizens and even attacked and captured the U.S. Army arsenal at ______.
Brown was convicted of murder, treason, and larceny and sentenced to death…he became a ______for the abolitionist cause.
Why were the Kansas-Nebraska Act and John Brown influential?
Marked the 1st time in U.S. history that the nation was so divided on an issue that both sides resorted to violence against their fellow Americans
Both the pro-slavery and anti-slavery sides of the U.S. (the South and the North) began to accumulate massive amounts of arms for a ______.
John Brown Political Cartoon: