American Civil War

To begin with, the American Civil War was a civil war in the United States
from 1861 to 1865, fought between the northern United States (loyal to the
Union) and the souther United States (which had seceded from the Union
and formed the Confederacy).

The civil war began primarily as a result of the long-standing controversy

over the enslavement of black people. Slave owners and their properties
made up of slaves of African origin were an ordinary landscape of early
American society. It is known that George Washigton, the first American
president, had possession of slaves inherited from his father, the owner of
a tobacco plantation in the Virginia colony. One fifth of the population of the
American colonies under the tutelage of the British Crown consisted of
slaves.

    War broke out in April 1861 when secessionist forces attacked Fort
Sumter in South Carolina shortly after Abraham Lincoln had been
inaugurated as the President of the United States.

      Union loyalists in the North, which also included some geographically

western and southern states, proclaimed support for the Constitution. They
faced secessionists of the Confederate States in the South, who advocated
for states' rights in order to uphold slavery

The Union and the Confederacy quickly raised volunteer and conscription
armies that fought mostly in the South over the course of four years.

The war effectively ended April 9, 1865, when General Robert E. Lee
surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant at the Battle of Appomattox Court
House.