The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack, four more states -- Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee -- severed their ties with the Union. To retain the loyalty of the ...

The Civil War was a military ... in which states’ rights and the institution of slavery were points of extreme contention. The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which abolished slavery, ...

Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

During the bloody years when the Civil War tore apart the United States, one place remained whole ... was a refuge for Union and Confederate soldiers throughout the war. All were welcome to ...

History 218—The Road to the United States Civil War starts in the 1780s, after the Continental Army’s defeat of British forces at Yorktown in 1781 and the 1783 signing of the Treaty of Paris to ...