It was the war of states in the USA.
The American Civil war took place between 1861-and 1865.
This period is remembered as one of the most violent in American history.
The main cause of the war was slavery.
The unity of purpose between slave-owning states and the ever-increasing anti-slavery states was impossible.
This is because the South plantation states who were slave owners felt that slavery should be expanded to the new territories while the Northerners who had less plantations felt that the newly created states should be free of slavery.
This became the political dilemma of the day with the Southerners fearing losing the government to antislavery forces and the North fearing the existence of a government controlled by slave power.
All this happened in the early 1850s.
The following years were marked by secession of states, forming and breaking of political parties and movements.
Eleven Southern states were the first to secede forming a confederation.
This confederation fought against the government that had support from all Free states and five border slave states.
The election of Lincoln in March 1861 fueled the crises.
On 12th April 1861 the war broke out after the confederate forces attacked a U.
S military installation at Fort Sumter, South Carolina.
Fighting, secession and rising of armies continued on both sides with the crisis deepening in September 1862 when Lincoln made the famous Emancipation Proclamation.
The successes of the confederate forces were shortened when the government or Union forces gained control of the Mississippi River at the Battle of Vicksburg in 1863.
The war continued up to April 9, 1865 when it ended following the surrender of Lee at Appomattox Court House.
The American Civil war was the deadliest in the history of the United States that claimed 620,000 soldier lives and unknown number of civilian deaths.
It marked the end of slavery.
The American Civil war took place between 1861-and 1865.
This period is remembered as one of the most violent in American history.
The main cause of the war was slavery.
The unity of purpose between slave-owning states and the ever-increasing anti-slavery states was impossible.
This is because the South plantation states who were slave owners felt that slavery should be expanded to the new territories while the Northerners who had less plantations felt that the newly created states should be free of slavery.
This became the political dilemma of the day with the Southerners fearing losing the government to antislavery forces and the North fearing the existence of a government controlled by slave power.
All this happened in the early 1850s.
The following years were marked by secession of states, forming and breaking of political parties and movements.
Eleven Southern states were the first to secede forming a confederation.
This confederation fought against the government that had support from all Free states and five border slave states.
The election of Lincoln in March 1861 fueled the crises.
On 12th April 1861 the war broke out after the confederate forces attacked a U.
S military installation at Fort Sumter, South Carolina.
Fighting, secession and rising of armies continued on both sides with the crisis deepening in September 1862 when Lincoln made the famous Emancipation Proclamation.
The successes of the confederate forces were shortened when the government or Union forces gained control of the Mississippi River at the Battle of Vicksburg in 1863.
The war continued up to April 9, 1865 when it ended following the surrender of Lee at Appomattox Court House.
The American Civil war was the deadliest in the history of the United States that claimed 620,000 soldier lives and unknown number of civilian deaths.
It marked the end of slavery.