HIST 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Seneca Falls Convention, Ken Burns
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Members of a south carolina slave-owning family. American farmers brought into texas to expand population. Result: fighting between mexican troops and american colonizers. 1836: creation of the republic of texas. Joins united states as a slaveholding state. Against-war: worried about expansion of slavery that would result from expansion of land. Significance: last push of american expansionism during this era. Racial norms of segregation spread to california. Chinese faced similar segregation that african americans faced in the east. Party created to limit expansion of slavery. Significance: anti-slavery beliefs became a political position. Compromise of 1820 did not cover california territory. California enters u. s. as a free state. In the future, people of new state get to choose if the state can be free. Created a federal, rather than local, process to determine whether a slave had to be returned. Federal power forced northern states to do things they did not agree. Republican party grows out of market revolution.
