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Imagine that you are a Spanish settler living in Texas in 1790, and you are talking with a friend over
dinner. Use the dropdown menus to complete the conversation.
YOU:
I feel that this is a prosperous time for the Spanish in North America.
YOUR FRIEND:
I agree, but I am wary of opening our territory to American settlers. What if they
infringe on our
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silver
holdings in Mexico?
YOU:
That is a valid concern, especially after the Nootka Convention wiped away our stake in
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sea otter furs
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Explanation:
In 1790, Spain’s control in the United States spanned from East Florida to the Gulf of Louisiana, Texas,
New Mexico, and California. Even though these lands were viewed as buffers against the Americans
and British gaining access to Mexico’s silver, Spain opened these territories to American settlers.
Hoping to increase settler populations in these areas, the Spanish offered free land in the Floridas and
Louisiana, even allowing Protestants to keep their religion if they pledged allegiance to the crown and
baptized their children as Catholic. During this time the Spanish in New Mexico were able to achieve
peace with Comanches and Apaches, making travel and economic development safer. Across
California, missions and presidios were established to protect the Spanish from Russian and British
incursions. However, Spanish prosperity did not extend to the Pacific Northwest after trade for sea
otter furs became popular. With England threatening war, Spain signed the Nootka Convention (1790)
and yielded its claim to the area, but the two countries failed to negotiate a northern boundary for
California.
Imagine that you are reading the editorial section of a newspaper in 1819. However, some of the
words have been smudged by rain. Using your knowledge of westward exploration and expansion after
1803, use the dropdown menus to complete the article.
Expansion Now and Then
Our Senate has finally emerged from weeks of debate with a decided version of the Missouri
Compromise. Among its list of provisions, all lands acquired in the Louisiana Purchase that are north of
the southern border of Missouri, with the exception of Arkansas, will now
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prohibit slavery
. But as this article’s title suggests, I want to reflect on the intentions of
the original Louisiana Purchase in 1803.
This was a time of rapid expansion and change in our nation’s history. If not for the efforts of Robert
Livingston, we may have never made the Louisiana Purchase and
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doubled
the size of the United States. Had this original growth not occurred, the efforts of
Lewis and Clark may not have been commissioned, and our efforts to
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find
the northwest passage
may not have occurred.
Let this be a reminder that for every decision made today, there’s a historical event (or two) that made
it possible.
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Explanation:
The Missouri Compromise of 1820 originated out of a need to balance political and economic power,
mainly by having a balance between the number of slave and free states. Missouri would remain a
slave state and be admitted to the Union. Maine would be admitted into the Union as a free state,
keeping the balance of power between free and slave states. Additionally, it was decided that slavery
would be prohibited in all the lands acquired in the Louisiana Purchase that were north of the southern
border of Missouri—with the exception of Arkansas—and slaves who escaped to free states would be
returned. Even though a balance of power was reached, debates over slavery created a division in the
Union between the North and the South.
This article’s author wanted readers to remember the themes surrounding the Louisiana Purchase and
the Lewis and Clark expedition. The Louisiana Purchase involved the selling of the Louisiana Territory
by Napoleon to the United States, doubling the size of the United States and reducing Spain’s
dominance in the West. Lewis and Clark set out on an expedition to the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to
find the Northwest Passage, gain geographic knowledge of the unexplored West, and gain descriptions
of unknown species of plants and animals.
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