MANIFEST DESTINY AND THE WEST

MANIFEST DESTINY AND THE WEST

1790ff : the building of national institutions
commercial networks/institutions/identities
1820ff: separation & section
two cultures and societies
legacies of Revolutionary America
expansionism
republican representation
1819 & Missouri
era of one-party government
Louisiana & Jeffersonian legacy
initiative from north

Missouri Compromise
was it a compromise?
issues of expansion & representation over slavery
quarter-century settlement:
parallel expansion
equal representation
muted issues: abolitionism/petitions
The extension of slavery
southern & northern views
slavery & free soil
Texas
Mexican independence &
settler promises
1836-45 agitation
1844 election: Clay & Van Buren
Texas & Oregon
annexation
Polk & war
manifest destiny
new racism
provoked war
opposition
Whigs
Lincoln & “spot” resolutions
What Polk wanted
Wilmot proviso
1850: Clay & Calhoun
two views of republican representation
compromise & concurrent majority
The problem with compromise
Fugitive slave law
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Was slavery doomed?
filibuster