As a result of the Mexican American War, Mexico lost almost half of its territory to the United States. The victory of the Mexican American War seemed to fulfill the citizens' beliefs in Manifest Destiny. The newly acquired territories of the United States put pressure between the Northern and the Southern states. The Northern states were against slavery and the Southern states were for it, thus a decision had to be made. The South wanted to expand their agriculture and as the newly acquired Western states were agricultural, the South felt they had rights to it. The North however, feared a Southern takeover and wanted the South contained. ("Mexican American War")
[...] (“American Civil Twenty-three states remained loyal to the union. The states of Nevada and West Virginia joined and Tennessee and Louisiana were soon returned to the Union. The North believed that the Southern states which had left the Union were misguided and unreasonable and that they were overreacting. Although no profound military planning had officially begun, governors in Massachusetts, New York, and Pennsylvania quietly began buying weapons and training militia units. (“American Civil In Washington in 1861 a pre-war peace conference was held in a failed attempt at resolving the crisis. [...]
[...] Confederate President Jefferson Davis ordered troops to attack the remaining Union-held forts in the Confederacy. The Northern governors that had been discreetly building a militia for months before that began to move their own forces the very next day. (“American Civil Works cited: "Mexican-American War." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Dec 2007, 04:05 UTC. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc Dec 2007 < http: american_war>. "Compromise of 1850." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Dec 2007, 06:02 UTC. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc Dec 2007 < http:>. "Fugitive Slave Law of 1850." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Dec 2007, 13:27 UTC. [...]
[...] This act voided the Missouri Compromise, established a quarter of a century earlier, which prohibited slavery in the territory which was now Kansas and Nebraska and free to decide slavery laws. (“Kansas Nebraska The Kansas Nebraska Act held no problems until popular sovereignty was written into the proposal. This established that settlers could decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery, in a democratic decision of the people. This ignored the lines drawn by the previous compromises. (“Popular Sovereignty”) Due to the decision to allow slavery laws to be decided by vote, slavery abolitionists from the North and pro-slavers from the South rushed into Kansas attempting to influence whether Kansas would enter the United States as a free state or slave state. [...]
[...] Finally, the Fugitive Slave law was passed, requiring all runaway slaves to be returned to their owner, regardless of that particular state's stance on slavery. (“Compromise of During Henry Clay's term as senator of Kentucky, the North and South were fighting over slavery laws of the newly added states of the expansion. Clay, known for his compromising, helped to work out the previously discussed Compromise of 1850. Clay however, failed to get the compromise through, but helped progress it along to its passage by Senator Stephen Douglas and Senator Daniel Webster. [...]
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