The Wilmot Proviso prevented new states from becoming slave states, the compromise enabled them to become slave states if popular sovereignty wanted them to be. California was allowed to become a new, non-slave state, and in return Slavery was enabled and allowed in the south, strengthening fugitive laws even more. To everyone it seemed like a victory for a while.
A. To acquire land so they could build and grow
It weakened the power of the Catholic Church in Europe.
An effect of the discovery of the New World in the late fifteenth century was a global exchange of plant life as different plants were transported to America where they thriwed, but different plants were also transported back to Europe and thriwed there as well.
Answer:
The Klondike Gold Rush, Dawes Act, and Homestead Act were contributing factors to the <u><em>westward expansion.</em></u>
Explanation:
Supported by Manifest Destiny, the westward expansion was not only an occupation of the land but a gradual process. Each part of this process had the contribution of the Klondike Gold Rush, the Dawes Act, and the Homestead Act.
Now let's see why and how:
- Klondike Gold Rush: beyond the fact to find gold in the North, the Klondike Gold Rush contribute to massive migration and the settlement in parts of Canada. Around 30,000 of the 100,000 or so prospectors that set out for the Klondike actually made it there.
- Dawes Act: despite it's not an expansion movement, the Dawes Act break up the Native American tribes and to see them as individuals. However, this act opened space to the settlement of non-natives.
- Homestead Act: this act officialized the westward expansion. The act, which took effect January 1, 1863, granted 160 acres (65 hectares) of unappropriated public lands to anyone who paid a small filing fee and agreed to work on the land and improve it, including by building a residence, over a five-year period.
