Westward Expansion
Main Course
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a movement that added states and balanced out free and slave states
California
California was admitted to the United States as a Free State due to the Compromise of 1850
Some of the People that helped with Westward Expansion
Millard Fillmore
President when the Compromise of 1850 was written
Henry Clay
Writer of the Compromise of 1850
Lewis and Clark
Men who were sent by Thomas Jefferson to inspect land to the west 50 years before
Manifest Destiny is AWESOME
Provisions of the Compromise
The Compromise of 1850 expanded limits to Westward Expansion. It let the states of California into the United States. It also started the campaign to make the Oregon Territory a state. Mainly though it was to balance out the Slave States and Free States heading into the Civil War.