HIST 216 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Free Soil Party, Manifest Destiny, Phenylalanine
5 Oct 2016
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Their ideas become more rigid in the 1840s, and increasingly come to define the american political scene. But the spark isn"t abolitionist or proslavery movements, it"s the possibility of threat of the expansion of slavery to the west, which the us was hoping to acquire. The problem then becomes the idea of slavery in a place where it was not yet in the us"s territory. This is the biggest spark of sectional conflict to 1861. Many white americans involve in this debate, also african. Most don"t believe slavery is profitable and successful in the west, because there is no cotton kingdom there. Some people think slaves can develop gold sector, some others think slavery will be good for building railroads. But no one imagines there"s going to be a larger plantation in the west. Turn to national politics, where the meanings of expansion get work out in a public form.
