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Analyze the causes and consequences of pro-slavery and abolitionist group's respective beliefs in their own superior moral identity.

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John O'Sullivan coined the phrase Manifest Destiny. Manifest Destiny was the term used when white settlers believed God granted them the right to expand westward.

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Analyze the degree to which and the ways in which the shift of pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces to more extreme positions worsened the sectional crisis.

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Explain the impact of territorial acquisition in intensifying sectional conflict.

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Despite land being owned by other nations, white settlers still believed they had a right to the land thanks to Manifest Destiny.

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Explain how the North and South felt threatened by the other side's ability to control the federal government and legislature against the interests of their region.

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When Texas was annexed, Congress was worried the slave-state free state balance would be unbalanced. They were able to cut a deal with Britain, which added Oregon into the Union.

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Polk seals the Mexican American War and gets New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California.

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Congress had to satisfy the slave and free state balance so they added Texas and Oregon.

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After the Mexican-American War, the American dream of reaching from ocean to ocean finally is fulfilled with the acquisition of California, Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico.

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- Rising anti-catholic sentiment
- Nativism
- Hendry David Thoreau

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California Gold Rush caused many people to travel westward and California.

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California omitted as a free state. Led to Compromise of 1850 by Henry Clay.
- California omitted as a free state
- Slave Trade is outlawed in D.C.
- New fugitive slave law
- Popular sovereignty for new coming states

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Gadsden Purchase - bought sliver of Mexican land to finish constructing a railroad.