American Civil War (apr 12, 1861 – may 26, 1865)
Description:
The central conflict leading to the war was the dispute over whether slavery would be permitted to expand into the western territories.January 1, 1863, when Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation he changed the status of enslaved people in all of the states that rebelled that of free people. It is also called a secession war because some Southern States retreated from the Union of States to form the Confederate States that opposed Lincoln as a president.
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Date:
apr 12, 1861
may 26, 1865
~ 4 years