United+States+1850-1890

=United States 1850-1890=

Overview
This time period has had plenty of changes and not just in size, but in economic system also. The south during this time left the the union and tried to set a new country called the confederate states of America. Abraham Lincoln electedd president in the 1860 elections believed it was unconstitutional for the south to do this a a civil war started. The north won and the south was forced to stop slavery, and had to pay blacks to work, and laws against blacks were also put into affect. We gained more land or territories was well during this time period. The civil war cost us more American lives ever compared to every single "conflict" or war when congress did not declare war we were involved with. The first time in American history our president was assassination of one of our presidents ever to occur. This time period has had many changes.

==Critical Issue== This time period of 40 years probably has had more disruption, violence, and problems than any other time in history. It also gained a little land but not as much as the time period before it. One issue that the power between the north and south. Compromises were made to best keep the power even but the north eventually have gotten more power in the government than the south. The amount of states that were free or slave was the power because they would have more influence in the government on laws and regulations. Another was war, and unconstitutional laws put in by states that weakened the governments power. We also gained more territory from Mexican-American war. The lands we received also caused us trouble later on. That is the really only time we got more land was from winning the Mexican-American war and not much more land. Also new states were created and reinstated that were previously territories, or later annexed into the United States.

Conclusion
This time period was a time of major change, but not much in land but in laws, economics, and trouble. We only got land from one war during this time period annexed a new state called Texas into our union. Several states also had to be redo the statehood requirements and even had to do extra work to become a state in the United States again after they unconstitutional left the union. Our policies also changed and our president had to have extra security from this time on after one of our president Abraham Lincoln was actually assassinated on American soil. This was a time of huge change land wise and politics/law wise.