A) Analyze how TWO of the following factors contributed to the growth of the slave trade and/or slavery in the southern region of the country from 1800 to 1850. Federal government policy

Cotton cultivation

Southern cultural ideologies

B) How did enslaved African Americans resist the institution of slavery?

The answer is stated below.

Explanation:

Westward expansion started with "Louisiana purchase" and "Gold Rush" supplemented by the ideology of "Manifest Destiny". The expansion also involved the problem of native Indians tribes who were resisting to give up their homelands. This problem is solved by taking several measures such as first a policy was adopted to force these tribes further west. But when the conflict could not be solved easily a policy of assimilation of these tribes to modern culture, was kept in hand.