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The importance of the Mexican American war was that we fought for land. Eventually, we won the land that we call today as the southwest region of the U.S.
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The importance of this event is that the north fought against slavery and the south fought to have slavery.
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The Homestead Act resulted in a significant shift in population from the eastern regoin to the missouri.
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When president Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, it declared slaves in areas loyal to the confederacy free.
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With the win over the south, the north was able to end slavery for good. But even this event didn't make African Americans fully equal to whites.
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This segregation was also called the Jim Crow laws, this caused seperation between whites and blacks.
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This war showed that the U.S was a super power country and had more peace keeping capabilities.
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The Great depression was an economic slump that happened in North America, and Europe. This caused many people to lose there jobs.
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This world war began when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. This disrupted the whole world.It also stopped the spread of dictatorships ruling both in Asia and Europe. The end of World War II saw the beginning of the Cold War and the conflict between the east (Soviet Union) and the west (United States) and the allies of each.
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On this same day, 4 large airplanes were hijacked. 2 of them hit the World Trade Center building, 1 of them hit the Pentagon, and the other one failed to reach its destination. It was going to hit the white house but crashed in a field in Pennsylvania. Ever since then, airport security has been a lot tighter and you are limited to the thing that you can bring on the plane.
