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In the year 1803, the Louisiana Purchase led to American unity until 1819. However the American Westward Expansion era was a time of uncertainty and chaos. During the years 1800-1850 this vision of unity was lost and disunity set in. Many events impacted westward expansion, one of which was the Missouri Compromise. In 1818, Missouri petitioned Congress for permission to enter the Union as a slave state. The major problem was it would upset the balance of the …

…federal land. The proviso pushed the country closer to civil war and raised questions about slaves which had not been asked previously. The Compromise of 1850 was a series of actions whose purpose was the settlement of five questions in disputes between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery. The two parts that are associated with westward expansion are that California is to enter as a free state organized without restrictions to slavery and the Wilmot Proviso being rejected.