American Civil War

The American Civil War is a war involving the Union states and the Confederacy. It lasted from 1861-1865. States within the Union were Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Iowa, Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, West Virginia, California, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington. States within the Confederacy were Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Tennessee, Arkansas, and Virginia. Kentucky remained neutral and part of the Union’s territory, but still kept slavery. All states that weren’t mentioned were founded during the American Wild West. All of the Union states, except for Kentucky, abolished slavery whereas all of the Confederate states owned slaves (mainly from Africa). However, the American Civil War was really more about states’ rights. The Union opposed such a philosophy whereas the Confederates supported it so they broke away. While the Union had a strong mix of both industry and agriculture, the south had mostly just the latter with very few of the first. That was a major component of how they lost, alongside the fact that they were highly outnumbered.