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1812 war
The War of 1812 (1812-15) was fought between the United States and Great Britain, primarily over the impressment of American sailors by the British Navy, as well as disagreements over trade, western expansion, and Native American policy. The war ended inconclusively after three years of fighting. -
The Mexican American war
The Mexican-American War was formally concluded by the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo. The United States received the disputed Texan territory, as well as New Mexico Territory and California. The Mexican government was paid $15 million — the same sum issued to France for the Louisiana Territory. -
The nation divided
The North was a free slave state there were many jobs and opportunities for slaves and immigrants. The South was not a free slave they use slaves as framing tools they grew cotton, tobacco, and many other crops. The North and the South have different economies one used slaves the other one don't -
why did the war started the war
Slavery was legal in the Southern states, but illegal in the Northern states. The argument between the Northern and Southern states over slavery puls Northen want more free states and the South wanted more slave states and Abraham Lincoln was an anti-slavery -
slaves
Slaves were used as a cheap labor force for the plantations of the South. The wealthy plantation owners wanted to maximize the profit they made growing crops, primarily cotton because black people from Africa were low -
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln became the 16th President and a lot of the people from the South hated him because he was from the North and he had one thing and one thing only free the slaves so he successfully waged a political struggle and civil war that preserved the Union, ended slavery, and created the possibility of civil and social freedom for African-Americans. -
The bull run
The first land battle of the Civil War was fought on July 21, 1861, just 30 miles from Washington—close enough for U.S. senators to witness the battle in person. Southerners called it the Battle of Manassas, after the closest town. Northerners called it Bull Run, after a stream running through the battlefield -
The Battle of Gettysburg
remains the bloodiest single day in American history. The battle left 23,000 men killed or wounded in the fields, woods, and dirt roads, and it changed the course of the Battle of Antietam Battle of Gettysburg in early July 1863, was by far the most devastating battle of the war, claiming over 51 thousand casualties, of which 7 thousand were battle -
The union
The Union won the war and their victories are of Bull Run, the Battle of Shiloh, the Battle of Antietam, the Battle of Gettysburg, and the Vicksburg Campaign. -
Abraham Lincoln re election
The American Civil War began less than two months after Lincoln's inauguration, with the Battle of Fort Sumter; afterward, four further states seceded. Lincoln would go on to win re-election in the 1864 United States presidential election. The election was the first of six consecutive Republican victories. -
how many people die
there were many battles with many death and bloodiest the lasted for four years and was the bloodiest war and all together death come up to 750,000 -
Abraham death
The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln | Articles and On the evening of April 14, 1865, while attending a special performance of the comedy, "Our American Cousin," President Abraham Lincoln was shot. Accompanying him at Ford's Theatre that night was his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, a twenty-eight-year-old officer named Major Henry R.