WESTWARD EXPANSION TEST

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Mind Map on WESTWARD EXPANSION TEST, created by charlottek711 on 12/03/2015.
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WESTWARD EXPANSION TEST
  1. MISSOURI COMPROMISE
    1. a law that created the 36*30' line that separated the free states from the slave states
      1. CA breaks this law
        1. unjust and starts the civil war because northerners rebel
      2. TRAIL OF TEARS
        1. 5 tribes
          1. CHEROKEE
            1. thought of as the most obedient tribe
              1. last to leave the US
                1. 4,000 died
              2. the trail that native americans had to travel to get from the US past the Mississippi river
              3. COMPROMISE OF 1850
                1. fugitive slave law
                  1. a law that said that any american who saw a free slave could return them to slavery if they saw fit
                  2. CA is free
                    1. creates north and south tension because it crosses the 36*30' line
                    2. NORTH AND SOUTH TENSION
                      1. when TX joins the US no one knows who will get the land
                    3. L&C EXPEDITION
                      1. GOALS
                        1. to find hidden passageway that leads to the ocean
                          1. to make maps and write down different species that they find in the west
                        2. H.D. THOREAU
                          1. CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
                            1. the act of breaking a law you think is unruly or unjust without hurting anyone in the process
                              1. goes out into the forest
                            2. STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS
                              1. written by Andrew Jackson
                                1. native americans were "children" and not smart
                                  1. couldn't decide things for themselves
                                  2. native americans new "father" and protector
                                2. MEXICAN-AMERICAN WAR
                                  1. americans thought it was their "manifest destiny"
                                    1. Mexico let the US inhabit part of TX making people believe that they should own TX
                                      1. tried to buy TX but didn't work
                                        1. WAR
                                    2. MANIFEST DESTINY
                                      1. people thought that God wanted them to expand the US and bring technology everywhere even if that meant killing people
                                        1. made people buy the West and go to war with Mexico
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