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Chapter 14: Western Expansion and the Rise of the Slavery Issue (Nation 3/e)
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
When you have finished studying this chapter, you should be able to:
- Describe the doctrine of Manifest Destiny and how it was used to justify American expansion.
- Describe the situation in the Mexican borderlands before 1846 and the establishment of the Texas Republic.
- Describe the Overland Trail experience.
- Discuss the political origins of the expansion movement and the outbreak of the Mexican War.
- Explain the rise of the issue of slavery expansion and its relationship to the Mexican War.
- Describe the societies of the Far West.
- State the terms of the Compromise of 1850 and its significance.
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