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Race And The Expansion Of The West Essay

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Race played an important role with the expansion of the West in America. Some of the territory in the west made Native American to live their home and land know as the Oregon Trail. When the United States gain new territory, the problem was what will the new states be for the minorities. The states were either free or slave states. The division with the states were the Missouri Compromise, that said territory north of Arkansas were free and under were slave. The gain of California in the Union cause a problem because half was under and over the border of Arkansas. The government made a new compromise called the Compromise of 1850. This agreement said the California was a free state, slave trade was outlawed in the capital, new fugitive slave
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