The Civil War began on April 12, 1861, when South Carolina's militia attacked Fort Sumter. Four slave states of the Upper South—Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina—then seceded and joined the Confederacy.

The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union [e] ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.

Feb 5, 2025 · American Civil War, four-year war (1861–65) between the United States and 11 Southern states that seceded from the Union and formed the Confederate States of America. How a tax increase helped spark the American Civil War In 1828 the U.S. Congress passed a tariff that increased the rates on imports into the United States to as much as 50 percent.

Nov 9, 2009 · The Confederate States of America was a collection of 11 states that seceded from the United States in 1860 and disbanded with the end of the Civil War in 1865.

Nov 12, 2013 · Here are ten basic facts you need to know about America's defining struggle.

Oct 15, 2009 · Eleven southern states seceded from the Union to form the Confederacy. Ultimately more than 620,000 Americans' lives were lost in the four-year war that ended in a Confederate defeat.

Feb 11, 2025 · Confederate States of America, in the American Civil War, the government of 11 Southern states that seceded from the Union in 1860–61, carrying on all the affairs of a separate government and conducting a major war until defeated in the spring of 1865.

Oct 27, 2021 · In the Confederacy, the population was listed as 5.5 million free and 3.5 million enslaved. In the Border States there were 2.5 million free inhabitants and 500,000 enslaved people. With the exception of rice and tobacco, the Union had a clear agricultural advantage.

Florida participated in the American Civil War as a member of the Confederate States of America.It had been admitted to the United States as a slave state in 1845. In January 1861, Florida became the third Southern state to secede from the Union after the November 1860 presidential election victory of Abraham Lincoln.It was one of the initial seven slave states which formed the Confederacy on ...

Nov 20, 2008 · When Abraham Lincoln won election in 1860 as the first Republican president on a platform pledging to keep slavery out of the territories, seven slave states in the deep South seceded and formed a new nation, the Confederate States of America.