HIST-099 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Fourteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution, Manifest Destiny, Slave Codes
9 Dec 2016
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Slave codes: starting in the 1660s, states began to implement slave codes in order to further limit the rights and daily lives of the slaves. This was a power tool on the part of the slave owners, making sure slavery was further ingrained into american society by making sure all slave children were slaves too and protecting masters against consequences for punishing/harming a slave. Articles of confederation/ constitution: the articles of confederation and the. Constitutions laid the groundwork for future definitions of american citizenship, but did not explicitly define it in the document. Manifest destiny: manifest destiny was a political ideology popular during the 1830s, expressing america"s god given right and duty to expand westward. This ideology influenced the growth in westward migration, the american superiority complex, and a tool by which to. Skirt around the slavery issue that is slowly dividing the country during the 19th century.
