American Civil War: April 12, 1861 - April 12, 1865
Causes: >The slave owning South was no longer able to coexist with the growing anti-slavery North
>fight for expansion of slavery in the new territories
>Southern fears of losing control of the federal government to anti-slavery forces
>Growing industrial North and economic differences of the two sections
>Bleeding Kansas causing blood to be spilled over the spread of slavery
>John Brown's raid on the Hapers Ferry Armory
Important Military Events: >December 20, 1860: South Carolina succeeds from the Union
>February 4, 1861: South Carolina, Texas, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana form the Confederate States of America
>April 12 –April 13, 1861: Battle of Fort Sumner starts the war
>April and May 1861: Arkansas, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Virginia join the Confederacy
>March 8 and March 9, 1862: Union ship USS Monitor defeats the CSS Virginia in the Battle of the Ironclads
>July 21, 1861: Confederate forces defeat Union forces at the First Battle of Bull Run
>February 6, 1862: Ulysses S. Grant leads Union troops to victory at the Battle of Fort Henry in Tennessee
>February 12- February 16, 1862: Ulysses S. Grant defeats Confederate forces at the Battle of Fort Donelson and takes control of the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers
>May 1862: Union captures New Orleans
>April 6-April 7, 1862: Union victory at the Battle of Shiloh
>September 17, 1862: George B. McClellan leads the Union to victory in the Battle of Antietam
>September 22, 1862: Emancipation Proclamation: Lincoln declares freedom of all slaves in Confederate states as did not return to the Union by January 1, 1863.
>May 18-July 4, 1863: The Union under Ulysses S. Grant take Vicksburg gaining control of the Mississippi and splitting the Union
>July 1-July 3, 1863: The Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee are defeated by Union forces at the Battle of Gettysburg. The Confederacy will no longer be able to take the offensive in the North ever again.
>June 15, 1864: Start of the siege of Petersburg, Virginia
>September 2, 1864: William T. Sherman defeats John B. Hood in the Battle of Atlanta and Atlanta falls
>November 15, 1864: Sherman starts his march to the sea from the captured city of Atlanta, Georgia
>December 15-December 16, 1864: John B. Hood’s army is destroyed and his Franklin-Nashville Campaign to menace Sherman’s supply lines and invade Tennessee fails
>December 22, 1864: “Sherman’s March to the Sea” ends laying waste to 20% of the farms in Georgia and the city of Savannah, Georgia is captured
>March 25, 1865: Petersburg falls to the Union army
>April 1, 1865: The Union becomes victorious at the Battle of Five Forks and forces Robert E. Lee to evacuate Petersburg and Richmond
>April 9, 1865: Lee surrenders his army at Appomattox court house
Treaty Resolving: >Every Confederate force surrenders to the Union by November 4, 1865
>Slavery is abolished with the ratification of the 13th Amendment on December 18, 1865
>The United States becomes whole and the Reconstruction Era begins
The War of 1812 started because the British were fighting Napoleon and were pretty much tied. So the British Navy was wracked with desertion because for every single thing you do in the British Navy, you get flogged. So no one wanted to be in it. The British decided to just kidnap American sailors to flesh out their ranks. Also, they still owned and operated forts on American soil, west of the Appalachians. And they were giving supplies to the Indians we were working so hard to kill. So clearly the British were stepping over the line, and so the war happened.
The war itself was, as far as wars go, pretty cool. Washington was burned to the ground, forcing hundreds of thousands of lobbyists to eat lunch in Virginia instead. But I'm getting ahead of myself. Let's start at the beginning. June 18, 1812: U.S. President Madison declares war on the British. Then we tried to invade Canada THREE TIMES, and during this time our tiny Navy kicked the limeys around the Great Lakes for a little while. Then there was the battle of Frenchtown, where British and Indian troops beat a Kentucky militia and the then massacred the survivors. Then in April 1813, we burnt York, which is now Toronto, Canada. Then in October we fought the Battle of the Thames and killed Tecumseh, the Indian leader, who wanted to unify the tribes. In 1814, the British planned to take us on three sides: The were going to attack us on Lake Champlain and march through New York, head up Chesapeake Bay and take Washington D.C. and Maryland. The would also head up the Mississippi River from New Orleans. First the came the burning of Washington on August 24-25, 1814. Then there was the battle of Pittsburgh, near Lake Champlain where we soundly beat a superior British force. Then there was the Hartford Convention, where the Federalists decided to secede from the Union or amend the Constitution to protect the power of the Northeastern states. This made them extremely unpopular. On December 24, 1814, we signed the Treaty of Ghent, which ended the war with the return to the status quo. But we are Americans dammit, and we go out with a Bang, so in January of 1815, after the end of the war, General Andrew Jackson took an army of backwoods farmers, pirates, Indians, runaway slaves, the Mafia, teamsters, the CIA, Aliens, the FCC, and many other hyper violent crazies. And he beat em! He beat em good! We wounded 1400 Brits and made 700 die for their country. We lost 8 valiant ex cons looking for a way out. Or maybe they were honest soldiers. Either way, we totally won the post-war battle and by extension, the whole war. America Rocks!
Dates: •May 13, 1846 war with Mexico begins •February 2, 1848 war is over
Events leading up to the Mexican War: •1822 Mexico wins independence from Spain. •1822 Stephen F. Austin establishes first legal American settlement in Texas. •1824 Mexico passes colonization law to attract American settlers to Texas. •1830 Mexican government bans further American immigration into Texas. •1833 Mexico drops Texas immigration ban. •1836 Texas declares independence from Mexico.
Causes: •Americans flowed into Mexican held areas of the Far West sometimes at the request of Mexican authorities—to stimulate the economy in the region. The Mexican government could not protect American lives or property during their frequent and reoccurring revolutions and they never paid for the damages. •When Texas was admitted to the Union in 1845 Mexico broke all diplomatic relations with the U.S. •In 1845 John Slidell traveled to Mexico City with a proposal for a peaceful settlement, he offered to cancel damage claims, pay $5 million for land in southern Texas, $25 million for California, and $5 million for other Far West Mexican territory, but the Mexican government refused to receive Slidell. •Dispute over southern Texas’s boundary, Americans argue Rio Grande, Mexicans argue Nueces River.
Important military events/battles: •January 13, 1846 Zachary Taylor moves troops from the Nueces River across to the Rio Grande, at first the Mexicans do not fight but then they move across the river and attack American soldiers and on May 13, 1846 Congress declared war with Mexico. •May 7-8, 1846 Taylor defeats a large Mexican force at the battles of Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma. •August 1846 Colonel Stephen W. Kearny captures Santa Fe and proceeds to California where he joins with John C. Fremont and the American navy in the Bear Flag Revolution and by autumn of 1846 they had completed the conquest of California. •September 20-24, 1846 Taylor defeats an even larger Mexican force at the Battle of Monterrey. •December 25-28, 1846 Colonel Alexander Doniphan defeated Mexicans at El Brazito and took El Paso. •January 1847 Commodore Robert Stockton’s troops joined with Kearny’s troops to defeat Mexicans at the Battle of San Gabriel. •February 22-23, 1847 Taylor being badly outnumbered by the Mexican force under Antonia Lopez de Santa Anna withstood the attack at the Battle of Buena Vista. •February 28, 1847 Doniphan wins Battle of Sacramento and took Chihuahua. •March 9, 1847 General Winfield Scott lands at Vera Cruz and marched more than 14,000 men 260 miles to Mexico City, by March 27 they had took Mexico City. •April 18, 1847 in the “most important single battle of the war” Scott defeats a superior enemy force at Cerro Cord. •August 19-20, 1847 Scott defeats an army at Churubusco then pauses waiting for the Mexican government to negotiate but they don’t, Scott moves into the fortress of Chapultepec on September 13, 1847 and takes it down.
Treaty resolving: •Nicholas Trist was sent to negotiate a settlement with Mexico. •February 2, 1848 Trist and a new Mexican government reach an agreement on the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo resolves the conflicts between the U.S and Mexico, Mexico agrees to cede California and New Mexico to the U.S and accept the Rio Grande as the boundary of Texas, the U.S in return agrees to assume any financial claims its new citizens had against Mexico (about $3.25 million) and to pay Mexico $15 million.
Significance: •Increased U.S territory by 1/3. •Raised again, the question of slavery in the new acquired territory.
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I will take the Mexican War
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I'm steaking the Civil War
War of 1812 for me. I have not yet begun to study.
Tyler Smith
American Civil War:
April 12, 1861 - April 12, 1865
Causes:
>The slave owning South was no longer able to coexist with the growing anti-slavery North
>fight for expansion of slavery in the new territories
>Southern fears of losing control of the federal government to anti-slavery forces
>Growing industrial North and economic differences of the two sections
>Bleeding Kansas causing blood to be spilled over the spread of slavery
>John Brown's raid on the Hapers Ferry Armory
Important Military Events:
>December 20, 1860: South Carolina succeeds from the Union
>February 4, 1861: South Carolina, Texas, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana form the Confederate States of America
>April 12 –April 13, 1861: Battle of Fort Sumner starts the war
>April and May 1861: Arkansas, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Virginia join the Confederacy
>March 8 and March 9, 1862: Union ship USS Monitor defeats the CSS Virginia in the Battle of the Ironclads
>July 21, 1861: Confederate forces defeat Union forces at the First Battle of Bull Run
>February 6, 1862: Ulysses S. Grant leads Union troops to victory at the Battle of Fort Henry in Tennessee
>February 12- February 16, 1862: Ulysses S. Grant defeats Confederate forces at the Battle of Fort Donelson and takes control of the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers
>May 1862: Union captures New Orleans
>April 6-April 7, 1862: Union victory at the Battle of Shiloh
>September 17, 1862: George B. McClellan leads the Union to victory in the Battle of Antietam
>September 22, 1862: Emancipation Proclamation: Lincoln declares freedom of all slaves in Confederate states as did not return to the Union by January 1, 1863.
>May 18-July 4, 1863: The Union under Ulysses S. Grant take Vicksburg gaining control of the Mississippi and splitting the Union
>July 1-July 3, 1863: The Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee are defeated by Union forces at the Battle of Gettysburg. The Confederacy will no longer be able to take the offensive in the North ever again.
>June 15, 1864: Start of the siege of Petersburg, Virginia
>September 2, 1864: William T. Sherman defeats John B. Hood in the Battle of Atlanta and Atlanta falls
>November 15, 1864: Sherman starts his march to the sea from the captured city of Atlanta, Georgia
>December 15-December 16, 1864: John B. Hood’s army is destroyed and his Franklin-Nashville Campaign to menace Sherman’s supply lines and invade Tennessee fails
>December 22, 1864: “Sherman’s March to the Sea” ends laying waste to 20% of the farms in Georgia and the city of Savannah, Georgia is captured
>March 25, 1865: Petersburg falls to the Union army
>April 1, 1865: The Union becomes victorious at the Battle of Five Forks and forces Robert E. Lee to evacuate Petersburg and Richmond
>April 9, 1865: Lee surrenders his army at Appomattox court house
Treaty Resolving:
>Every Confederate force surrenders to the Union by November 4, 1865
>Slavery is abolished with the ratification of the 13th Amendment on December 18, 1865
>The United States becomes whole and the Reconstruction Era begins
The War of 1812 started because the British were fighting Napoleon and were pretty much tied. So the British Navy was wracked with desertion because for every single thing you do in the British Navy, you get flogged. So no one wanted to be in it. The British decided to just kidnap American sailors to flesh out their ranks. Also, they still owned and operated forts on American soil, west of the Appalachians. And they were giving supplies to the Indians we were working so hard to kill. So clearly the British were stepping over the line, and so the war happened.
The war itself was, as far as wars go, pretty cool. Washington was burned to the ground, forcing hundreds of thousands of lobbyists to eat lunch in Virginia instead. But I'm getting ahead of myself. Let's start at the beginning. June 18, 1812: U.S. President Madison declares war on the British. Then we tried to invade Canada THREE TIMES, and during this time our tiny Navy kicked the limeys around the Great Lakes for a little while.
Then there was the battle of Frenchtown, where British and Indian troops beat a Kentucky militia and the then massacred the survivors. Then in April 1813, we burnt York, which is now Toronto, Canada. Then in October we fought the Battle of the Thames and killed Tecumseh, the Indian leader, who wanted to unify the tribes. In 1814, the British planned to take us on three sides: The were going to attack us on Lake Champlain and march through New York, head up Chesapeake Bay and take Washington D.C. and Maryland. The would also head up the Mississippi River from New Orleans. First the came the burning of Washington on August 24-25, 1814. Then there was the battle of Pittsburgh, near Lake Champlain where we soundly beat a superior British force. Then there was the Hartford Convention, where the Federalists decided to secede from the Union or amend the Constitution to protect the power of the Northeastern states. This made them extremely unpopular. On December 24, 1814, we signed the Treaty of Ghent, which ended the war with the return to the status quo. But we are Americans dammit, and we go out with a Bang, so in January of 1815, after the end of the war, General Andrew Jackson took an army of backwoods farmers, pirates, Indians, runaway slaves, the Mafia, teamsters, the CIA, Aliens, the FCC, and many other hyper violent crazies. And he beat em! He beat em good! We wounded 1400 Brits and made 700 die for their country. We lost 8 valiant ex cons looking for a way out. Or maybe they were honest soldiers. Either way, we totally won the post-war battle and by extension, the whole war. America Rocks!
Dates:
•May 13, 1846 war with Mexico begins
•February 2, 1848 war is over
Events leading up to the Mexican War:
•1822 Mexico wins independence from Spain.
•1822 Stephen F. Austin establishes first legal American settlement in Texas.
•1824 Mexico passes colonization law to attract American settlers to Texas.
•1830 Mexican government bans further American immigration into Texas.
•1833 Mexico drops Texas immigration ban.
•1836 Texas declares independence from Mexico.
Causes:
•Americans flowed into Mexican held areas of the Far West sometimes at the request of Mexican authorities—to stimulate the economy in the region. The Mexican government could not protect American lives or property during their frequent and reoccurring revolutions and they never paid for the damages.
•When Texas was admitted to the Union in 1845 Mexico broke all diplomatic relations with the U.S.
•In 1845 John Slidell traveled to Mexico City with a proposal for a peaceful settlement, he offered to cancel damage claims, pay $5 million for land in southern Texas, $25 million for California, and $5 million for other Far West Mexican territory, but the Mexican government refused to receive Slidell.
•Dispute over southern Texas’s boundary, Americans argue Rio Grande, Mexicans argue Nueces River.
Important military events/battles:
•January 13, 1846 Zachary Taylor moves troops from the Nueces River across to the Rio Grande, at first the Mexicans do not fight but then they move across the river and attack American soldiers and on May 13, 1846 Congress declared war with Mexico.
•May 7-8, 1846 Taylor defeats a large Mexican force at the battles of Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma.
•August 1846 Colonel Stephen W. Kearny captures Santa Fe and proceeds to California where he joins with John C. Fremont and the American navy in the Bear Flag Revolution and by autumn of 1846 they had completed the conquest of California.
•September 20-24, 1846 Taylor defeats an even larger Mexican force at the Battle of Monterrey.
•December 25-28, 1846 Colonel Alexander Doniphan defeated Mexicans at El Brazito and took El Paso.
•January 1847 Commodore Robert Stockton’s troops joined with Kearny’s troops to defeat Mexicans at the Battle of San Gabriel.
•February 22-23, 1847 Taylor being badly outnumbered by the Mexican force under Antonia Lopez de Santa Anna withstood the attack at the Battle of Buena Vista.
•February 28, 1847 Doniphan wins Battle of Sacramento and took Chihuahua.
•March 9, 1847 General Winfield Scott lands at Vera Cruz and marched more than 14,000 men 260 miles to Mexico City, by March 27 they had took Mexico City.
•April 18, 1847 in the “most important single battle of the war” Scott defeats a superior enemy force at Cerro Cord.
•August 19-20, 1847 Scott defeats an army at Churubusco then pauses waiting for the Mexican government to negotiate but they don’t, Scott moves into the fortress of Chapultepec on September 13, 1847 and takes it down.
Treaty resolving:
•Nicholas Trist was sent to negotiate a settlement with Mexico.
•February 2, 1848 Trist and a new Mexican government reach an agreement on the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo resolves the conflicts between the U.S and Mexico, Mexico agrees to cede California and New Mexico to the U.S and accept the Rio Grande as the boundary of Texas, the U.S in return agrees to assume any financial claims its new citizens had against Mexico (about $3.25 million) and to pay Mexico $15 million.
Significance:
•Increased U.S territory by 1/3.
•Raised again, the question of slavery in the new acquired territory.
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