Mexican American War-was fought by Mexico and united states.united states won.won the southern states from this war.caused bad relationship between those two countries for a long period of time.war took place because of manifest destiny.this war was the most unjustified war we, the United States, has ever fought.united states invaded Mexican territory by Pope sending troops to Rio Grande river.then Mexico crossed the river and invaded us so we were forced to fight back.we lost over thirteen thousand and many others were injured, where as Mexico lost about double of we didLincoln Presidencywent down in the history as one of the best presidents of all timesixteenth presidenttried to end slaverymade emancipation proclamationwhich set the goal that slavery was going to be gone after the waralso gave the Gettysburg address after the victory of the civil warthirteenth amendment officially ended slavery in 1865died in 1865 right after the civil warsouth seceded when Lincoln took presidency because they didn't want him to abolish slavery because slavery was most popular in the south.Obama is heavily influenced by Lincoln.Civil War-fought by United States(union) and the Confederatestook place from 1861 to 1865U.S. won because they had more soldiers and better equipment, such as more resourceshealth care was better for the United StatesConfederates had better generals, in the south.a lot of the battles were won by both sides, but in the end U.S. won overall.US had more railroad mileage, factories,money, iron products, population, farm acreage.south had more exportsnorth had more statesReconstruction-took place from 1865-1887it was the rebuilding of the southunder Lincoln presidencymeant to abolish slaveryanyone born in us had civil rightscongresses plan to help rebuild the southrepublicans saw chance of the freeing of slaves so they went and passed it.as soon as reconstruction the south went back to being the south racist government that it has always been.African Americans weren't actually given rights til a hundred years later than what they were supposed to be.had to socially rebuildfamily's had to be rebuiltFreeman burrow was designed to help incorporate African Americans into normal societynortherners moved south to take over the governmentssoutherners would make terrible rulers because of racismelection was so close that had to go house of reps.democrats said we'll let you be president as long as you let north gets out.took more than twelve years to completely end slaveryreconstruction ended in 1977,during that time was successful, but cut way too short.
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