HISB30H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: White Southerners, Fourteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution, South African Americans
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American revolution -> now it was a new beginning of diversity, democracy regional diversity 1861 - constitution 1787 failed. War create a broader democracy - war increased the power of the government. What caused it: cultural social differences between the north/south into a division a fight for the west (sectional crisis): early 19th century - south north, west, - all different - socially, economically. Consisted of political conformation of the future of new western territory - whether slavery was going opt be used or not. for white southerners it was about extending slavery to perceive the south - plantations. northerners questioned slavery. Mexican war: brought new territory into the us. came the question whether slavery or not was going to be in it. Last week - david willmoe -offered an amendment to band slavery from land taken from mexico. Discovery of gold (cali) and new territory 1849-50. Created suspicion - s feared slave rebellions from the north.
