Why Do People Push West

1. Why did people push west?
There are many reasons the pushed people to head west. The fist reason was that the land was rare in the east, especially in New England were it became overpopulated. Land was productive and expensive in the Mid-Atlantic States. Also, farmers in the south held the best lands. In addition, the need to move west was the highest in the slave states because small farmers could not stand against slave labor. Finally, the land in the west was rich and abundant, accessible and cheap.
2. Explain the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
The treaty was signed on February 2, 1848 between the United States and Mexico. In the treaty, Mexico gave up its claims to Texas north of Rio Grande and ceded Alta California and New Mexico. It
also included that the United States had paid 15 million, expected over 3 million in claims of American citizens against Mexico, and accepted to grant U.S. citizenship to Mexican residents in its new territories.
3. Where and how the civil war begin?
It all began when David Wilmot submitted his amendment to ban slavery from the territories gained from Mexico.
By 1850s, the slavery issue had become weighted with so much ethical and political fright that it challenged easy resolution. Slavery was the spark behind the civil war; the South’s defense of slavery and the North attack on it raised a collection of stereotypes that inflated the real differences between them.
It started in Fort Sumter to protect Charleston harbor, South Carolina, when President Lincoln tried to provision federal troops at the fort, starting an aggressive response from on-shore confederate forces.
4. Why and how the North have the advantage in the Civil War?
The North had an advantage over the South in many fields, including its population, industrial and agricultural capacity, and transportation network. Half of the men of military age fought for the Union in the North, around 2.1 million were supplemented by Irish, German immigrants and African Americans who most of them were ex-slaves from the South. In the South, 90 percent of the men eligible to fight and fought for the Confederacy in the South were around 900000. The North controlled 90 percent of the nation’s industrial capacity. Dozens of facilities that produce war material in the north while there was just one munitions plant. Also, the railroad system in the North was more than twice the size the size of the
South’s.
5. Explain how reconstruction was a success or a failure or both.
The reconstruction was a success were the 14th and 15th amendments were passed, the participation increase of African Americans in public life and schooling, the readmission of Southern States and the expansion of education in the South.
The reconstruction was a failure were the whites in the South were aggressively opposed to black rights and many in the north did not care, the rise of KKK but where army was present, KKK leaders were detained and imprisoned, Land Reform were blacks and poor whites had no choice just to farm tenancy in what so called Sharecropping. Finally, Poll taxes, grandfather clauses and then reading and writing tests, and “Jim Crow” segregation, exclusion from labor unions for blacks as well as exclusion from Democratic Party.