HIST 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Missouri Compromise
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Missouri compromise: missouri wanted to be admitted as a slave state. In an attempt to settle the question of how far slavery would be allowed to spread: 32 degrees-30 louisiana territory, nothing above, the underlying cause of the civil war was slavery. Had to agree to learn to speak spanish: 3. Idea that the united states should/is destined to spread all the way from the. Atlantic ocean to the pacific ocean: phrase (cid:272)oi(cid:374)ed (cid:271)y (cid:374)e(cid:449)spaper(cid:373)a(cid:374) joh(cid:374) l. o" ulli(cid:448)a(cid:374) 1845. Election of 1844: democrat james k. polk, candidate of manifest destiny, platform (promises made to the voters, 1. Take all of the oregon country loga(cid:374) (cid:271)e(cid:272)a(cid:373)e (cid:862)fifty-four-forty or. Richmond: slaveholder, he would attempt to get congress to make texas a state, texas in as a slave state, slavery is spreading, polk inaugurated, he negotiated a settlement with great britain over the oregon country.
