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Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Congress doth consent that the territory properly included within and rightfully belonging to the Republic of Texas, may be erected into a new State to be called the State of Texas, with a republican form of government adopted by the people of said Republic, by deputies in convention assembled, with the consent of the existing Government in order that the same may by admitted as one of the States of this Union.
2. And be it further resolved, That the foregoing consent of Congress is given upon the following conditions, to wit: First, said state to be formed, subject to the adjustment by this government of all questions of boundary that may arise with other government, --and the Constitution thereof, with the proper evidence of its adoption by the people of said Republic of Texas, shall be transmitted to the President of the United States, to be laid before Congress for its final action on, or before the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six. Second, said state when admitted into the Union, after ceding to the United States all public edifices, fortifications, barracks, ports and harbors, navy and navy yards, docks, magazines and armaments, and all other means pertaining to the public defense, belonging to the said Republic of Texas, shall retain funds, debts, taxes and dues of every kind which may belong to, or be due and owing to the said Republic; and shall also retain all the vacant and unappropriated lands lying within its limits, to be applied to the payment of the debts and liabilities of said Republic of Texas, and the residue of said lands, after discharging said debts and liabilities, to be disposed of as said State may direct; but in no event are said debts and liabilities to become a charge upon the Government of the United States. Third -- New States of convenient size not exceeding four in number, in addition to said State of Texas and having sufficient population, may, hereafter by the consent of said State, be formed out of the territory thereof, which shall be entitled to admission under the provisions of the Federal Constitution; and such states as may be formed out of the territory lying south of thirty-six degrees thirty minutes north latitude, commonly known as the Missouri Compromise Line, shall be admitted into the Union, with or without slavery, as the people of each State, asking admission shall desire; and in such State or States as shall be formed out of said territory, north of said Missouri Compromise Line, slavery, or involuntary servitude (except for crime) shall be prohibited.
Expansionism was the most important issue prevailing during the era of the Manifest Destiny. There was a decisive question of expansion of slavery. Whether there'll be slavery in the new areas that were settled.
The northerners and the southerners defined the Manifest Destiny in different ways. The Manifest Destiny is concerned with the increase of capitalism and democracy around the nation. Hence Expansion of slavery was the issue during Manifest Destiny era.
William Bradford was an English Puritan separatist basically from the West Riding of Yorkshire in Northern England. He traveled to Leiden in Holland in order to escape persecution from King James I of England and then migrated to the Plymouth Colony on the Mayflower in 1620. William Bradford became a foremost figure in the Puritans' Separatist change. He and other congregants finally traveled from England on the Mayflower to settle a colony in Plymouth, Massachusetts, where Bradford became a longtime administrator after a disastrous winter.
Alexandria, Antioch and Jerusalem, which were lost to the Arabs. And Thessaloniki which was the largest Greek city after Constantinople, until Paris grew larger as a Western university city in high medieval times. By then East Rome had lost its glory, and was surpassed by Venice, Genoa, Milan and Florence.
the different perspectives these sources represent of the scramble for Africa are
• Visual Source 18.1 offers a missionary perspective on Africa.
• Visual Source 18.2 offers the perspective of European expeditions into the interior of Africa that secured European claims to African territories.
• Visual Source 18.3 offers a British imperial perspective, in particular focusing on Rhodes's grand plan to link the British imperial holdings in Africa.
• There are few criticisms of the scramble; however, Visual Source 18.2 does allude, through the corpse in the foreground, to the blood that was spilled.
• Visual Source 18.1 alludes to the blood spilled with the soldiers firing on Africans in the top right-hand portion of the board.
• Visual Source 18.3 indirectly alludes to the blood spilled by showing the gun over Rhodes's shoulder.
The photo shows a heavily armed man on an expedition actively using weapons. One of the men has died. This means that Marchan had to use considerable force to claim his territorial claim to France.
