HIS271Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Missouri Compromise, Indian Removal Act, Omnibus Bill
Document Summary
Territorial expansion and the origins of the civil war. Manifest destiny was america"s justi cation for its expansion. The ideology and the territorial expansion that accompanied it served as a force of nationalism but ultimately it became a divisive force in the 1840s. It becomes a source of tension and breaks down the expansionists" consensus. The u. s. was inadequately prepared to deal with the expansion of territory and the sectionalism that accompanied it. There has been rising sectionalism (re economy; wage vs. slave labour; cultural and social changes e. g. the rise in northern circles of abolitionist reformers; etc. ) Now, we see sectionalism move into national politics. Expansion was built into the american midnight. U. s. and spain created the trans-continental treaty, as negotiated by john quincy. He wrote that the treaty was the partial ful lment of a divine plan. he said that the continent was going to belong to the u. s. , by natural law and by god"s plan.
