HIST 199 PAPER ASSIGNMENT

 HIST 199 PAPER ASSIGNMENT

 OUTLINE

1. Introduction
2. My topic is about Westward Expansion.
3. My argument is that how the westward expansion changed and transformed the country in 1803 by President Thomas Jefferson.

1. WESTWARD EXPANSION AND SLAVERY

1. Missouri Compromise. In which Missouri was added to the union as a slave state and Maine as a free state and banning slavery in rest of purchased land in Louisiana.
2. Westward Expansion was caused by influx and cotton which was a big crop and which was produced by slave which directly continued slavery.[unique_solution]

• BLEEDING  KANSAS

1. In 1854 a senator from Illinois presented an idea to give the states Kansas and Nebraska the opportunity to choose whether they would like to make slavery legal or not.
2. As both states had to make the decision whether they decide to make slavery legal, many were angered and later due to this, there was a civil war which had changed the way United States treats slavery.

1. WESTWARD EXPANSION AND MEXCIAN WAR

1. There were several conflicts going on at that time so people started moving towards westward due to the slavery issue as well as the Missouri compromise.
2. This expansion resulted in Polk declaring war against Mexico stating that the Mexican army “invaded our territory and shed American blood on American soil”

1. CONCLUSION

At the end westward expansion was for development and to grow American economy but it came at a cost like all these war and different movement.