The Road to the Civil War

Question 1

What was the Louisiana purchase, the Mexican American and the Mexican Cession?

Answer 1

Bought from France in 1803
USA gains new territories in the 1840s
USA had large chunks of new land in the West

Question 2

What was the main question that was asked that helped lead up to the American civil war?

Answer 2

What to do with slavery in the new western territories .

And should it be allowed to expand west

Question 3

What were the proposals to resolve the question of if slavery was able to expand west?

Answer 3

1.Missouri Compromise
2. Wilmot Provisio
3 Compromise of 1850
4. Popular Sovereignty