American Studies 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Gettysburg Address, Emancipation Proclamation, Consecration

• School: Western University
• Department: American Studies
• Course: American Studies 1020
• Professor: Tom Cull

Document Summary

Issues with manifest destiny: have to deal with the people already in the country, the nation was divided on the issue of slavery. With the acquisition of every new state, the question was posed on whether the new state would be a slave state or a free state. The south believed that for the institution of slavery to survive, it would have to grow. By 1850, the usa is in the minority of the great nations that still had slavery. Border states were starting to become lax on the topic of slavery. There as fear in the south that the border states would soon ban slavery. The expansion west was seen as a way to revive the practice of slavery. The comprise of 1850: california would be admitted to the union as a free state, the remainder of the mexico concession would be turned into two states, new.