Free states and slave states both wanted to see their ideas extend to the west. Americans who moved west took their different ways of life with them. This was a conflict for Missouri because they believed in slavery.
Free states and slave states both wanted to see their ideas extend to the west. Americans who moved west took their different ways of life with them. This was a conflict for Missouri because they believed in slavery.
Westward expansion created territories that eventually wished to become States. Every application for Statehood prior to the Civil War increased sectional tension because of the need to balance "free" and "slave" States in Congress.
The Wilmot Proviso
Missouri Compromise
Not really. James was born in Missouri, a generation or two after Missouri had already become a state. Missouri was thickly settled by that time. By the time James was born in 1847 the frontier of westward expansion had already moved hundreds of miles farther west from Missouri.
Missouri Compromise
it didnt it made it worse
Westward expansion
Slavery played a significant role in westward expansion in the United States. The expansion of slavery into new territories and states fueled sectional tensions between the North and South, eventually leading to the American Civil War. The issue of whether new states would allow or prohibit slavery was a major factor in determining the balance of power between the free and slave states, and ultimately the course of westward expansion.
what does zebulon pike have to do with the westward expansion
Yes - provided that at least half the new states were to be free soil. Hence the Missouri Compromise.
The westward Expansion started after the gold rush in 1849.