History of the United States I / Unit 14 USH1 1975 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Northern Pressure
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The idea
Northerners pressed to organise the territory west of Missouri and Iowa, which had been admitted as a free state in eighteen forty-six.
In practice
Farmers wanting federal land surveys and sales in the region.
Where people slip
Transcontinental railroad promoters wanted the West opened, and that second interest had nothing to do with slavery and decided everything.
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