Background on the American Civil War
After decades of simmering tension between the northern and southern United States, issues over slavery, westward expansion and nationalism versus sectionalism brought The American Civil war (1861-1865). The war, often referred to as the Civil War, was a war fought between 11 southern slave states that formed "the Confederacy," and the other 25 states that supported the federal government, known as "the Union". After four years of warfare and battles at Bull Run, Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Vicksburg and more, the Confederacy surrendered and slavery was outlawed everywhere in the nation.
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The American Civil War had numerous causes. The three main causes of the American Civil War were slavery, Nationalism versus sectionalism and the difference in climate between the southern and northern parts of the United States. Among all of these causes,
The difference in climate between the southern and northern
parts of the United States was the main cause of the Civil
War for it was the cause that led to all other
causes of the American Civil War.