Thomas Hart Benton
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For Benton and other supporters of what came to be known as \u00e2\u0080\u009cmanifest destiny,\u00e2\u0080\u009d the country\u00e2\u0080\u0099s growth was inevitable. Benton promoted the annexation of new territories, homesteading by European Americans, and other measures\u00e2\u0080\u0094all of which displaced Native Americans from their lands."}, {"label": "Exhibition Label", "content": "While Benton\u00e2\u0080\u0099s career flourished as the country expanded, it later faltered on the issue of slavery. Although Benton enslaved people, he nevertheless supported the Union and objected to introducing slavery to new states and territories. Accordingly, he voted against the Compromise of 1850, a set of five bills that kept slavery in some new parts of the country and forestalled the decision to allow it in others. Outraged by Benton\u00e2\u0080\u0099s vote, the Missouri legislature replaced him with a proslavery member of the Whig party."}, {"label": "Exhibition Label", "content": "Nacido en Hillsboro (hoy Hillsborough), Carolina del Norte"}, {"label": "Exhibition Label", "content": "Durante sus 30 a\u00c3\u00b1os como senador dem\u00c3\u00b3crata de Misuri (1821\u00e2\u0080\u009351), Thomas Hart Benton promovi\u00c3\u00b3 con entusiasmo la expansi\u00c3\u00b3n de EE.UU. m\u00c3\u00a1s all\u00c3\u00a1 de sus fronteras al oeste y al sur. Para Benton y otros defensores de lo que se conoci\u00c3\u00b3 como el \u00e2\u0080\u009cdestino manifiesto\u00e2\u0080\u009d, el crecimiento del pa\u00c3\u00ads era inevitable. Junto a otras medidas, promovi\u00c3\u00b3 la anexi\u00c3\u00b3n de nuevos territorios y el asentamiento de colonos de origen europeo, todo lo cual desplazaba a los ind\u00c3\u00adgenas de sus tierras."}, {"label": "Exhibition Label", "content": "La carrera de Benton floreci\u00c3\u00b3 mientras el pa\u00c3\u00ads se expand\u00c3\u00ada, pero la pol\u00c3\u00a9mica de la esclavitud lo afect\u00c3\u00b3. Aunque ten\u00c3\u00ada personas esclavizadas, apoyaba a la Uni\u00c3\u00b3n y se opon\u00c3\u00ada a establecer la esclavitud en los estados y territorios nuevos. En consecuencia, vot\u00c3\u00b3 contra el Compromiso de 1850, un grupo de cinco leyes que manten\u00c3\u00adan la esclavitud en ciertas \u00c3\u00a1reas nuevas del pa\u00c3\u00ads y en otras la imped\u00c3\u00adan. La legislatura de Misuri, indignada con el voto de Benton, lo reemplaz\u00c3\u00b3 con un esclavista del Partido Whig."}, {"label": "Provenance", "content": "(C. Burr McCaughen and McCaughen and Burr, Inc. 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