Louisiana Purchase. Thomas Jefferson purchased this from Napoleon.
At the First Continental Congress, the delegates discussed boycotting British goods all together, but decided to send the Crown a list of their grievances in the hopes of getting the Intolerable Acts lifted.
Manifest Destiny basically mean, "EVERYONE MOVE TO THE WEST NOW!" But with no slaves, how would they create farms to maintain themselves? Easy: expand slavery. However, this was battled against by several sources to create the Compromise of 1850. The compromise delayed the Civil War, despite politicians knowing it will eventually happen. It bought them time-- that was important! Other new states like Nebraska and Kansas were allowed to allow slavery or not. This eventually grew to where the North had no slavery and the South did, which lead to the Civil War.
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Group A
Growing educated middle class
Women available for factory work
Risings population
