American

Civil War
 The American civil war was a civil war fought in
the United States from 1861 to 1865. As a result of
a slavery controversy dating back to the country's
origins, war broke out in April 1861, when
confederate forces attacked fort sumter in south
Carolina, shortly after President Abraham Lincoln
took office. Union nationalists proclaimed
allegiance to the United States constitution. They
faced secessionists from the confederate states, who
defended slavery and the rights of states not only to
maintain it but also to expand it into New
Territories.
Among the 34 states of the United States in February
1861, seven slave states of the south individually
declared their secession from the United States to
form the confederate states of America, or the south.
States that remained loyal to the United States were
known as the union or the north.
The union and the confederacy quickly raised
volunteer armies and conquests that fought mainly in
the south over the course of four years. The union
eventually won the war four years of heavy fighting
left between 620,000 and 750,000 dead; much of the
southern infrastructure was destroyed, especially
transport systems. The confederation collapsed,
slavery was abolished and 4 million slaves were
freed. The era of reconstruction (1863-1877)
overlapped and