{"id":20910,"date":"2024-04-12T02:24:24","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T02:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/why-did-westward-expansion-into-california-influence-the-civil-war-provide-3-examples-drawn-from-the-reading-or-primary-source-to-answer-the-question\/"},"modified":"2024-04-12T02:24:24","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T02:24:24","slug":"why-did-westward-expansion-into-california-influence-the-civil-war-provide-3-examples-drawn-from-the-reading-or-primary-source-to-answer-the-question","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/why-did-westward-expansion-into-california-influence-the-civil-war-provide-3-examples-drawn-from-the-reading-or-primary-source-to-answer-the-question\/","title":{"rendered":"Why did westward expansion into California influence the Civil War? Provide 3 examples, drawn from the reading (or primary source), to answer the question."},"content":{"rendered":"
To answer:<\/div>\n
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  1. Include a shortened version of your answer to the question in your first paragraph (this is a \u2018thesis\u2019)<\/li>\n
  2. Conclude by re-stating your argument.<\/li>\n
  3. Don\u2019t forget to cite in the following way: <\/span>\n
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    1. (lecture)<\/li>\n
    2. (textbook, XX)<\/li>\n
    3. (McPherson, XX)<\/li>\n
    4. (Burnett)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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      Some pointers regarding James McPherson\u2019s \u201dMexico, California, and the Coming of the Civil War\u201d<\/b><\/div>\n
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      1. Argument is right up front on page 15 (the first page of the pdf): <\/span>\n
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        1. \u201cIn a striking example of unintended consequences, the issue of slavery in this new American territory (what the US won from Mexico during the Mexican-American War) set in motion a series of events that would produce a bigger war fifteen years later that nearly tore apart the United States.\u201d (McPherson, 15)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n
        2. Polk \u2013 11th<\/sup> <\/span>US President, mentioned in the lecture<\/li>\n
        3. Natural Limits Thesis \u2013 a group of historians who argued that slavery would NOT expand west due to climate, and therefore anti-slavery politicians (like Abraham Lincoln) had no reason to fear slavery\u2019s growth, making the Civil War an entirely avoidable conflict<\/li>\n
        4. \u2018peculiar institution\u2019 \u2013 a euphemism for slavery that southerners used to avoid talking about slavery and the social system that went along with it<\/li>\n
        5. Leonard L. Richards \u2013 an historian of California who discovered how much slavery shaped the history of early California<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n


          Dont use any other source besides the three on the botton. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

          To answer: Include a shortened version of your answer to the question in your first paragraph (this is a \u2018thesis\u2019) Conclude by re-stating your argument. Don\u2019t forget to cite in the following way:  (lecture) (textbook, XX) (McPherson, XX) (Burnett)   Some pointers regarding James McPherson\u2019s \u201dMexico, California, and the Coming of the Civil War\u201d Argument […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[30],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/20910"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/20910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=20910"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=20910"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=20910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}