...Unit # 5 complete # 2 Southern Democrats demanded that the new territories allow slavery even though the Democratic party claim to defend the rights of the Common Man. Northerners argued allowing slavery in Texas would cause the plantation owners to buy all the land and none would be left for the left affluent farmers (Schultz, 2013).Northern Democrats wear anti-slavery but was also racist and they knew if Texas, Kansas, and Missouri head plantations black people will populate their territories. Some of the northern Democrats turned against slavery so they wouldn't have to live in the western territories with black people, In order to defend the plantations economy the southern Democrats remained pro-slavery. This argument caused the...
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...return of the constitution of 1824. Over time, Santa Anna altered his political platform to dictatorship, while choosing to ignore his promise. Unsatisfied with Santa Anna’s unjust economic, social, and political regulations, the Texans fought valiantly for independence by declaring war on Mexico. The Texan’s drive for freedom was understood considering Santa Anna’s cruel government. Santa Anna had created callous regulations and orders for the Texans. Santa Anna had sent soldiers under Cos’ command in order to enforce his orders. (NEED ONE MORE REASON/EXAMPLE)Cos’ convict soldiers were constantly stealing indispensable supplies from the settlers. The anglos became frustrated as this unruly behavior continued. The law of April 6, 1830, had also been created to prevent any new slave ownership in order to ward off anglo influence. Texans were angered over this new law because runaway slaves...
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...and Wisconsin. More importantly, this legislation outlawed slavery north of the Ohio River. In 1803, the United States acquired the Louisiana Purchase—ironically, as a direct result of a slave revolt in Haiti—from France. The Louisiana Purchase would spark the first national political debate. As settlers began to move into the Louisiana territory, the issue of slavery arose. A territory could apply for statehood after it reached 60,000 settlers. In 1819, Missouri applied for statehood, entering the Union as a slave state. This enraged White Northerners. The admittance of Missouri gave the slave holding states the majority in the Senate; foreshadowing, that future political policies, would favor the Southern economic system—slavery. In an effort to consolidate the North and South, Henry Clay a representative from Kentucky constructed the Missouri Compromise. This allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state, in addition to, Maine entering the Union as a free state. This temporarily moderated the geographical dispute. In, 1846 the United States began its war with Mexico. Amidst the war, a Pennsylvania...
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...Arizona Statehood & Constitution Kelli Miller Grand Canyon University: POS 301 January 22, 2013 Arizona Statehood & Constitution Arizona is recorded to have began in 1539 by the Europeans with the first documented exploration of the area by Marcos de Niza. Arizona was part of Mexico because the population was small. The United States took possession in 1848 after the Mexican-American War. Arizona split off from New Mexico in 1863, and became a state on February 14, 1912. Arizona still continues to grow today as a state in population, with retirees and tourism. I will be describing and analyzing events that have impacted Arizona becoming a state. Preterritorial Period The earliest cultures of Arizona can be speculated to have appeared around 25,000 BC. In 500 A.D., the more defined cultures emerged being known as the Hohokam whom was pit dwellers that specialized in irrigation systems. They brought water by way of canals to grow crops; and many of the remains of their canals still can be traced. The Casa Grande tells us a great deal about the achievements of the civilization. Beginning in the 11th Century, the Pueblo developed underground chambers to build their homes and cotton fiber. They lived in elaborate cliff dwellings, unlike the Hohokam. Around this time, Spanish colonist began to populate the territory in search of fortune. The Apache and Navajo whom exited Canada in the 13th century began to settle the land. This time was known for many battles and...
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...Father Marcos de Niza explores Arizona and claims it for Spain • 1752 – First permanent Spanish settlement was established in Tubac • 1776 – A Spanish fort is built at Tucson ❖ Arizona History – 1800’s • 1821 – Mexico gains military control of Arizona • 1821 – Trappers and traders from the United States came into Arizona • 1848 – United States won the Mexican War and gained all of Arizona, north of the Gila River through the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo • 1850 - The Great Compromise organized this new territory and allowed for division of the territory into states to be admitted to the Union in the Future • 1854 – The rest of Arizona becomes part of the United States by the Gadsden Purchase • 1891 – An Arizona Constitution was written and passed by voters. While the US House of Representatives also passed the constitution, the Senate did not approve statehood. ❖ Arizona History – 1900’s • 1904 – A bill was proposed to combine the New Mexico and Arizona territories into a single state. New Mexico voters approved but Arizona did not. • 1910 – Another constitutional convention was held, and this constitution was passed on February 19, 1911 • 1912 – On February 14 a proclamation was signed making Arizona a...
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...Arizona Statehood and Constitution "I believe in the United States of America as a Government of the people, by the people, for the people; whose just powers are derived from the consent of the governed; a democracy in a republic; a sovereign Nation of many sovereign States; a perfect union, one and inseparable; established upon those principles of freedom, equality, justice, and humanity for which American patriots sacrificed their lives and fortunes. I therefore believe it is my duty to my country to love it; to support its Constitution; to obey its laws; to respect its flag; and to defend It against all enemies." Tyler, W (1918) -- The American's Creed. The Spanish Period, Arizona is the youngest of all the states, and the last of the 48 states to be admitted to the Statehood in 1912. Arizona’s history goes back hundreds of years. In 1535, the Spanish explorer Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, with three companions, found their way to Arizona; where Cabeza de Vaca was perhaps the first European explorer to enter Arizona territory. Arizona history states that, “His report led to further explorations of the region. The Spaniards heard stories about the great wealth of the Seven Cities of Cibola. They grew eager to find this treasure”. In the 1600s Antonio de Espejo and Juan de Onate found minerals that would make Arizona rich and increase Spanish interest in the territory. In 1752 the Spanish established the first white settlement. The Arizona history states that “the 18th...
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...Arizona Statehood and Constitution Arizona and Federal Government November 18, 2012 Part 1: Arizona Statehood There are many events which impacted the process of Arizona becoming a state. Each of these events is not only historical, but they are what allowed the Arizona Constitution to be written in 1910 and to finally become a state in 1912. The Arizona Constitution, when first adopted, was seen as one of the most radical documents in the United States, and even today it still has many contrasts to the U.S. Constitution. Some of the events which helped to shape the Arizona Constitution, as well as make it an official state are the Pre-territorial Period, the Spanish Period, The Mexican Period, the U.S. Controlled Period, the Territorial Period and the impact of the Progressive movement on the creation of the Arizona constitution. First, the Pre-territorial Period is probably the most politically unknown because it is impossible to reconstruct how these prehistoric communities felt about politics and democracy. However, evidence shows that people inhabited Arizona for thousands of years before the Europeans. Indians were considered to be the “first citizens” established in Arizona, long before it became a state. There are three major cultures which lived in this state, which were the Apache, the Navajo, the Hohokam and Mogollon. The Hohokam disappeared around the mid 1400’s but historians do not know why. Each group was complex in their social organizations...
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...William H Seward was a new york lawyer and then a new york senator. Won the 1849 election to be the unites states senate. During the 1850s the US was going through a dispute between pro and anti-slavery matters.Where the main question came to appear is that who regulates slavery in the territories. Causing disputes between northern and southern. The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five bills presented to the congress by Henry Clay but successful delivered by Stephen A Douglas and sign off by Zachary Taylor's vice president Fillmore after President Taylor's death. The Compromise 1850 was the attempt to avoid southern secession from the union and the establishment of the civil war by reducing tensions and dispute between the South and...
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...Marcos de Niza explores Arizona and claims it for Spain • 1752 – First permanent Spanish settlement was established in Tubac • 1776 – A Spanish fort is built at Tucson ❖ Arizona History – 1800’s • 1821 – Mexico gains military control of Arizona • 1821 – Trappers and traders from the United States came into Arizona • 1848 – United States won the Mexican War and gained all of Arizona, north of the Gila River through the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo • 1850 - The Great Compromise organized this new territory and allowed for division of the territory into states to be admitted to the Union in the Future • 1854 – The rest of Arizona becomes part of the United States by the Gadsden Purchase • 1891 – An Arizona Constitution was written and passed by voters. While the US House of Representatives also passed the constitution, the Senate did not approve statehood. ❖ Arizona History – 1900’s • 1904 – A bill was proposed to combine the New Mexico and Arizona territories into a single state. New Mexico voters approved but Arizona did not. • 1910 – Another constitutional convention was held, and this constitution was passed on February 19, 1911 • 1912 – On February 14 a proclamation was signed making Arizona a state in...
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...Chapter 18 Kelly Garcia 1. California grew quickly enough to apply for statehood before it became a territory. It applied as a free state, and with no slave territory ready for state, so the Missouri Compromise wouldn't work. This angered southern politicians, who were looking to add new slave territories to the U.S. 2. The politicians tended to support the Compromise, and younger hotheads tended to oppose it. It brought California in as a free state; gave New Mexico the land it disputed with Texas; it abolished the slave trade in Washington D.C.and, it split the remaining Mexican Cession into New Mexico and Utah, with slavery to be determined by popular sovereignty; it gave Texas $10 million in compensation; and it included a much more strict fugitive slave law. It passed following many speeches by Clay, Webster, and Calhoun. 3. The North benefited the most from the compromise. They got an advantage in the Senate that they would never lose because of California, and the territories of New Mexico and Utah would not be practical for slavery. The fugitive slave law was widely disregarded by Northerners. Even the $10 million that Texas got was a moderate sum compared to what they lost. 4. Many treaties were formed and signed for various reasons and compromises between Latin America and the United States and Asia and the United States. 5. It sliced Nebraska into Kansas and Nebraska and allowed slavery to be decided by popular sovereignty. It required the Missouri Compromise...
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...the term Manifest Digest reflect? Did it cause historical events such as the new political supports for territorial expansion, or was it merely a description of events? * In 1845, John L. O’Sullivan coined the phrase Manifest Destiny; he felt that Americans had a right to develop the entire continent as they saw fit, which implied a sense of cultural and racial superiority. It was an idea that American settlers were destined to expand throughout the continent. This led to “Oregon fever” The Oregon country stretched along the Pacific coast from the border with Mexican California to the border with Russian Alaska and was claimed by both Great Britain and the United States. “Oregon fever” raged in 1843 as thousands, lured by reports of fine harbors, mild climate, and fertile soil, journeyed for months across the continent to the Willamette Valley. 250,000 Americans had braved the Oregon Trail by 1860; many died en route from disease and exposure, although relatively few died from Indian attacks. Some of those pioneers veered off and went down to California, namely Sacramento River. To promote California’s development, the Mexican government took over the California missions and liberated the 20,000 Indians who worked on them, many of whom intermarried with mestizos and worked as laborers and cowboys on large cattle ranches. The rise of cattle ranching created a new society and economy as agents from New England firms assimilated to Mexican life and married into the families of...
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...of more than 500,000 square miles (1,300,000 square km) of Mexican territory extending westward from the Rio Grande to the Pacific Ocean . Mexico severed relations with the United States in March 1845, shortly after the U.S. annexation of Texas, partly because of Mexican opposition to the annexation and partly because of the conviction in the North that Texas represented an expansion of slavery. Furthermore, the boundary was in dispute. Mexico claimed that the southern boundary of Texas was the Nueces River, the Texan boundary while under Mexican rule. Americans, as well as the incoming President, claimed that the boundary of Texas was the Rio Grande River. The territory between the two rivers was the subject of angry bickering between the two nations and therefore served as the catalyst for an all-out war. President Polk's true goal was to acquire the rich ports of California. When his offer to purchase the lands were rejected by Mexican President José Joaquín Herrera, who was aware in advance of the American’s intention of dismembering his country, President Polk ordered Troops under General Zachary Taylor to occupy the disputed area between the Nueces and the Rio Grande. The Mexicans retaliated by attacking U.S troops in the disputed zone. President Polk's declaration of war sent to Congress for ratification stated that Mexico "invaded our territory, and shed American blood upon the American soil." Therefore, the United States was responding to an attack on American...
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...Christi Bickford POS 301 – Arizona and Federal Government November 11, 2012 Arizona Statehood This was the oldest time in Arizona history. There were various types of people living at this time. One of which is the Paelo people. The Hohokam people settled in the southern parts of Arizona in the early 300’s. The Hohokams introduced highly extensive canals and watering systems.. The Hohokam and Anasazi people began the process of finding new ways to be successful in producing agricultural crops. As time when on, the Hohokam people became very advanced in irrigation. They contributed to the creation and establishment of more advanced irrigation networks. Around 500BC the Pueblo people came to Arizona. These people built many elaborate residences, for those times, in the region. They were a people that developed the use of cotton fiber and underground chambers to build their homes. It is a very amazing history of the beginnings of Arizona. The people of the time were very much advanced for the time and began to master crops and homes that would flourish in the Arizona territory. During this time the Spanish colonist began to steadily populate Arizona. They were in search of the silver and other hidden treasure of the territory. Many Spanish colonists including Fray Marcos and other colonist came looking for the sliver deposits they had trouble making the territory bigger. The Apache and Tohono O’odham Indian tribes would not allow the colonist to travel north...
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...RAILROADS KEY IN WESTERN EXPANSION BETWEEN 1860 AND 1890 HIST 102: American History since 1877 May 21, 2016 Professor HIST 102 19 May 2016 Railroads Key in Western Expansion between 1860 and 1890 The time period between 1860 and 1890 in American history were critical times for westward expansion in the nation. During this period the nation went through sweeping changes as many territories and unorganized territories became states, major cities nearly tripled in number and agriculture saw a dramatic increase in improved agricultural land. This expansion from east to west was most definitely facilitated by the significant increase in the railroad networks. In the early 1860’s the farthest west the railroads touched were the eastern border of Texas. By the end of the 1890’s the railroads had expanded as far as the most western border of California, northern tip of Washington and the Southern border of Texas. In the early 1860’s approximately two thirds of the United States domestic lands were actually States, while four were still considered unorganized territories and the remaining were territories. At this time there were two prominent railroads in the United States, these two lines were the Central and the Pacific Railways. Contracts were awarded to these two companies to bring westward expansion and connect the east and west coasts. The growth and expansion of the nation’s railroads also brought millions of immigrant workers to the nation compromised...
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...was done to maintain the nation as half slave and the other half as free. For one to prescribe to this notion that the nation could have been divided yet united one must dismiss the numerous efforts made in the decade leading up to the Civil War. There were many factors that lead to this conflict probably the most significant event was America emerging as the victor in the Mexican American War. America’s victory resulted in an enormous amount of land being opened up for new territories. These territories...
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