TX History Summative
By: Noah Knotts
Mexican American war: 1846-1848
it was a war between Mexico and America to settle border disputes, finish manifest destiny and decrease mexico by half of their country.
Texas Secession: March 1861
It added Texas to the confederacy and it made Houston step down.
Ft. Sumter: April 1861
It was the beginning of the civil war. A bloodless battle to start the most bloodiest war in U.S. history.
Gettysburg: 1863
One of the bloodiest battles in the civil war and after Abe Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address.
Emergence of KKK: 1865
They were racist terrorist that tried to maintain democratic control in the South and to keep former saves powerless.
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A political change from Fort Sumter is it started the war that would turn our government against each other and the government in the south gets a new president. A economical change is that it started a war that would make the U.S. into the debt and would destroy farms so they couldn't trade. And a social change was that people had to stop farming and stopped working in factories and started training for war and there was a huge population loss from this war.