ENGL 261 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Judge Holden, Missouri Compromise, Revival Meeting
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Race plays a major role in this novel but there is no attempt to sugar coat it whatsoever. Slavery permitted only below missouri compromise line and if slavery were to expand the us needs to take over mexico. North despised this war; nearly all who fought were volunteer southerners or southern prisoners. Toadvine= the kids best friend and the moral center of the novel. Treaty of guadalupe hidalgo= border established between mexico and the united states at the rio grande. The usa gave them a very small amount of money for all of this land. Many wanted all of mexico and were outraged that they didn"t get even more land. John c. calhoun= the greatest defender of slavery in the history of the united states ; Doesn"t want all of mexico because of the large amounts of mexicans who he doesn"t want in this country.
