 | Chapter Objectives
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When you have finished studying this chapter, you should be able to:
- Describe the doctrine of Manifest Destiny and how it was used to justify American expansion.
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- Describe the situation in the Mexican borderlands before 1846 and the establishment of the Texas Republic.
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- Describe important features of the Overland Trail experience and of the different societies established in the Far West.
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- Discuss the political origins of the expansion movement, the outbreak of the Mexican War, and the territories added between 1845 and 1848.
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- Explain the rise of the issue of slavery expansion and its relationship to the Mexican War.
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- State the terms of the Compromise of 1850 and its significance.
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