Impressment was one of the causes of the war of 1812. ... Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo - the peace treaty ending the Mexican War gave the United States California, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and parts of Arizona, Colorado, Kansas, and Wyoming in exchange for $15 million and assumption of $3.25 million in debts owed to Americans by Mexico. ... Ultraexpantionists called on Polk to throw out the treaty, but a war-weary public wanted peace. ... The war was over. ... However, slavery could continue to exist in border states that were not at war against the Union. ...

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The Civil War The American civil War is sometimes called the War Between the States. ... It was the only war fought on American soil by Americans, and for that reason we have always been fascinated with The Civil War. ... Following the 1819 crisis over statehood for Missouri, a national two-party system developed, and both parties worked to prevent sectional differences from becoming the focus of politics, this failed when the Mexican War gave the United States new territories. The question of whether slavery would be allowed into lands ceded by Mexico immediately became the all-...

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In his 1860 campaign for president, Abraham Lincoln firmly expressed his opposition to slavery and his determination to limit its expansion westward into the new territories acquired from Mexico in 1850. ... Up until the war the North and South had operated on very different economic systems. ... The South were constantly threatening war as a result. ... The war lasted for more than four years with a staggering loss of over 600,000 lives. More Americans died in the Civil War than in all other wars America has fought in combined. ...

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Perman has written yet another book on the aftermath of the Civil War, "Emancipation and Reconstruction, 1862-1879" focuses on the issues and literature produces on the events following the Civil War. ... In the initial years of America, the country faced many diverse challenges, of establishing new colonies, resistance from native Indians, Mexico Spanish wars and inter-state conflicts. The most traumatic event in nation's history after its independence was the Civil War (1861-65). ... The war left far reaching consequences, and although the Unionists won the war and the country remain...

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In Document J, the government is continuing to try to hold back the spread of slavery to new states by keeping it out of the newly achieved territory from Mexico as well as other places. ... Throughout the whole 1800's separation steadily grew worse until the Civil War. ...

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