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 ...

It started as a mundane environmental cleanup along the Congaree River in Columbia, South Carolina, and ended as a trip back ...

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.

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.

"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.

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 ...