The now U.S. was controled by the English.
Only males could own property.
The two sides of the debate over slavery were divided between the two main sections of the United States; the North and South. Many Northerners viewed slavery as evil and wrong and some were involved in the abolitionist movement. The North did not obey fugitive slave laws because they said they were cruel and inhumane. No states in the North allowed slavery and the North and the abolitionists who lived there harbored fugitive slaves and helped them escape to Canada along the Underground Railroad. In the South, on the other hand, the people said that slavery was necessary to their way of life even though the majority of southerners did not even own slaves. Those who did own slaves, said slavery was good for the slaves because they were cared for in every way and given a job and that slavery was good for the slave owners because it allowed southern whites to achieve a high level of culture.
The immediate result of trench warfare was that combatants on both sides were largely shielded from small arms and artillery fire, which prolonged the fighting and the war.
The correct answers are A) It accelerated migration to the West Coast and D) It added an additional slave state to the country.
The discovery of gold in California impacted western expansion in that it accelerated migration to the West Coast and it added an additional slave state to the country.
After the United States purchased the Louisiana territory in 1803, US President Thomas Jefferson ordered the exploration of the new territories with the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Two years later, both explorers delivered the results of their exploration and President Jefferson supported the occupation of those lands. So the westward expansion started. Thousands of people started to move west using the Oregon Trail to fulfill the Manifested Destiny.
