Many controversial issues arose in the mid 1800's in the young United States of America. In 1848 Mexico signed the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which settled the war between The US and Mexico and contributed to the growing area of the United States .In 1852 Harriet Stowe published the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. This novel showed the horrors of slavery to over half a million Americans contributing to anti-slavery feelings in the north. Only three years later …showed first 75 words of 517 total…

…showed last 75 words of 517 total…peacefully under present conditions. In the time period of 1848-1860 there were probably dozens of major events leading to civil war. The north and south could not live together peacefully and in the end war seemed inevitable. Between new territory and violence there was nothing there government could do to completely appease both northerners and southerners. By 1861 it did not come as a surprise to many that the north and the south were at war.