Manifest Destiny
and
the Expansion of Slavery
Missouri
Compromise (1820)
-36°
30' Line
Republic
of Texas (1836-1845)
-Sam
Houston
Election
of 1844
-James
K. Polk (Democrat)
-Henry
Clay (Whig)
Mexican-American
War
-Wilmot
Proviso
-Treaty
of Guadalupe-Hidalgo (1848)
Election
of 1848
-Zachary
Taylor (Whig Party)
-Lewis
Cass (Democratic Party)
-Popular Sovereignty
-Martin
Van Buren (Free Soil Party)
Compromise
of 1850
-Fugitive
Slave Law (1850)
Kansas-Nebraska
Act (1854)
-Stephen
A. Douglas
-Popular
Sovereignty
Republican
Party (1854)
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
Election
of 1860