Today we talked about the Mexican/American war. It happended after we annexed Texas, and from the war we won the Mexican session, which was Texas and California. Mexico was angry with us after we had taken half their land. Later we talked about President Abraham Lincoln. He was elected the 16th president with vice president Andrew Johnson who was Democratic and from the South. The Civil War was started the same year that he was elected. The southern states had ceceeded from the Union because they believed Lincoln was going to abolish slavery. In Gettysberg, he presented his famous speech, "The Gettysburg Address" which was a funeral speech. Later on he presented his Emancipation Proclomation. His transcontinental was passed. He served 2 terms as president, and was killed during his second term.We also talked about what happended during the Civil War. The war was between the South Confederate and the North Union of America. Ther Union won the war which aboloished slavery. The South had more powerful generals such as Robert E. Lee. Mostly everything was manufactured in the North, which resulted in a benefit for them. The South grew tobacco, cotton, and molasses but in the North they had more food crops, and a Navy which both resulted in benefits for them as well.
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