1. Manifest Destiny - expanding U.S. territories due to population increased, plantation increased, demand for more product and resources of white settlers.
1.1. Indian Removal Act
1.1.1. Reading "Indian Removal", "Extract from Andrew Jackson's Seventh Annual Message to Congress", "A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn", Since Indians can not live in contact with a civilized community and prosper, Indians should be moved to the West. In exchange, they were offered some right and benefits.
1.2. Mexican - U.S. war in Texas
1.2.1. Reading "Manifest Destiny", Many Truths Constitute the Past" "A war of Violence". In trhe same purpose to extent terrorists, Violence was used to conquest some parts of Mexico at the border. Mexicans lost their homeland, cultural, language, and considered as a second citizens in their homeland.
2. African was inferior compared to White. White settlers exploited black labor and more and more wanted to expand territories. The more expanding the more black labor sources was needed.
2.1. Reading "Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia". Jefferson stated that black were inferior compared to White, but we have never viewed them as subjects of natural history.
2.2. Afican abolition and Civil War
2.2.1. Reading: "African Americans". African people wanted their freedom and equal right. Abolition also included white people. However some white abolition wanted to free slaves but didn't consider black people equal to them.
2.2.1.1. Reading "Emancipation Proclamation"1862: Abraham Lincoln president declared freedom for all slaves.