Civil war

Civil War Timeline.

By audrianafortier

  • Mexican War

    Mexican War
    [War](http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKe2_SFwSYY)The war started because of a boundary dispute. We couldn't figure out if it was an American State or a Mexican State. The Americans and Mexicans were fighting because we wanted the border to be on the Rio Grande, but the Mexicans wanted it to end further north. "Ol' Fuss and Feathers" captured Mexico City. We won the war and it started the treaty of Guadalope Hidalgo. The war costed $100 Million, 17 Months of war, 13,000 casualties, and debates.

  • Slave Power Conspiracy (1850)

    Slave Power Conspiracy (1850)
    by the 1850s, northerners had came to believe that a southern slave power had seized control of the federal government and threatened to overturn republican ideals of liberty, equality, and self-rule. It was said to be economy inefficient and a tactic to expand slavery.

  • Uncle Tom's Cabin

    Uncle Tom's Cabin
    Harriet Beecher StoweUncle Tom's Cabin is a book written by Harriet Beecher Stow. She wrote it in Brunswick Maine. Harriet wrote this book to show people how bad slavery really was because people really never knew till 1852. This book is said to have caused the war.

  • Gadsden Purchase

    Gadsden Purchase
    videoWe bought 29,000 square miles from Mexico because they needed money for the war debt they had. The Gadsden Purchase at last finalized the border and now we have a railroad connection.

  • Bleeding Kansas

    Bleeding Kansas
    videoThis was with the "Boarder Ruffians" that was people who sat at the boarder and kept "carpet baggers" or people who wanted to move to Kansas for the voting and then leave to go back home. They wanted to move there to vote to make slavery illegal in this state. Later on Kansas is named a free state

  • Ostend Manifesto

    Ostend Manifesto
    Ostend Manifesto was a bill to invade Cuba. Cuba at the time was a Plantation Economy. The South wanted to invade because they claimed it was an issue of National Security and the North accuses them of wanting to expand slavery.

  • Abraham Lincoln is Elected President

    Abraham Lincoln is Elected President
    videoLincoln was elected president in 1860. He was the only candidate that was against slavery, throughout the debate none of the southern states voted for him. This showed how divided the country was. After his election conflict started. Southern plantation owners started rebellions and soon wanted to leave the Union. When they tried it started the Civil War.