Explore the American Civil War's history, causes like slavery and states' rights, key events including Gettysburg and ...

South Carolina. Federal troops returned the fire. The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack, four more states -- Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee -- severed their ...

Civil War never explicitly states why America is fighting against ... Oregon, Montana, North and South Dakota, Minnesota, Idaho, Wyoming and Idaho. Middle America is mostly "loyalist states ...

Polk to chronicle the deleterious path of the United States ... Civil War as unavoidable due to the irreconcilable differences of political economy, culture, and morality between the north and south.

More from Wes about the causes of the Civil War. What led to ... territorial expansion. The South wished to take slavery into the western territories, while the North was committed to keeping ...

The Civil War started in 1861, but years of growing tension between Southern and Northern states stemming from ... between the economies of the North and South, according to History.com.

Virtually all of the Civil War was fought on Southern soil, though Union forces suffered more casualties. The Southern states of Virginia, North Carolina, Alabama, and South Carolina sustained ...

But the schisms ran deeper than just North against South—there were ... within the United States. Neither Delaware nor Kentucky ended slavery during the Civil War, so some historians estimate ...

"What was the cause of the United States Civil War?" A voter posed the question ... She said that when trying to understand "why" the North and South went to battle, slavery is the core issue.