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| needed equal proportion of free and slave states, Maine was let in as well | ||
| occurred in result of Calhoun's rebellions to tariffs; Clay was involved in this tariff which stated troops could collect tarrifs | ||
| also called the Omnibus Bill; written by Clay that said California would be admitted as a free state, the people of Utah and New Mexico would vote whether they were free or not, fugitive slave law would be strengthened, slave trading would be prohibited in district of columbia | ||
| purchased from Napoleon | ||
| with Lousiana Purchase, taken over by US from spanish | ||
| British gave over Oregon to US after long arguments | ||
| strip of lang in the west used for railroads, The Gadsden Purchase was the 1853 treaty in which the United States bought from Mexico parts of what is now southern Arizona and southern New Mexico. Southerners wanted this land in order to build southern transcontinental railroad. The heated debate over this issue in the Senate demonstrates the prevalence of sectional disagreement. | ||
| the belief that the United States was destined to stretch across the continent from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean |
