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U.S, Texas, and World History.
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This was the battle that sparked the Texas Revolution -
Texan volunteer soldiers took control of the Mexican fort of Alamo, after going back and forth gaining and losing control the Texians were able to take over the fort once again killing all Texans inside. -
There was rising tensions due to border disputes. Mexico choosing the Nueces River, and the US choosing the Rio Grande. President Polk did not want to outright declare war, so he sent soldiers to this "gray" area of a border. The Mexican Army chose to attack this group of Americans, giving the declaration of war. -
This Treaty brought an end to the Mexican-American war. It made Mexico give up all land north of the Rio Grande, this land to later be established as Wyoming, Utah, New Mexico, California, Arizona, and Colorado. -
With tensions already rising between the North and South due to political unrest, Lincoln won the 1860 election causing even further problems -
Starting with South Carolina seceding 6 more states followed throughout 1861 creating the Confederate States -
After the secessions tensions between Free and Slave states were higher than ever. Lincoln ordered Fort Sumter to be taken by the Union due to it strategical positioning, and the South then fired the first shots. -
By this point in the war the Confederate Armies had been defeated by the Union countless times, and one final time while General Lee was commanding one of the final Confederate armies and was surrounded. He finally surrendered to the Union forces ultimately ending the war -
Congress passed the 13th amendment stating "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States or any place subject to their jurisdiction" -
Less than a week after the Union victory in the Civil War, John Wilkes Booth went into Ford's Theatre in D.C. and assassinated Lincoln.