Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Early Tensions
1789-1838
- Expansion
- Indians of the East
clashed with
frontiersmen
- Americans wanted
to expand to
spread Democracy.
- The American Promise
- Land was sold in
small sections to
farmers for $1-2
- Land speculators
bought up land and
sold it at a profit
- Led to trade. For example
Lewis and Clark set up fur
trade routes.
- Slavery
- Expansion led to
tensions over whether
new states should
have slavery.
- The North disliked slavery
for 3 reasons - economic -
Religious - Political
- Slavery was expanding due
to the Cotton Gin, The
Lousiana Purchase and the
Missouri Compromise