More on the war: The shortest American Civil War summary you'll ever read ... stark divides began to grow between the economies of the North and South, according to History.com.

For this reason, the government turned away African American ... the South, most slaves did not hear of the proclamation for months. But the purpose of the Civil War had now changed. The North ...

The American Civil War is a pivotal and ugly moment in American ... But the schisms ran deeper than just North against South—there were also cracks within the Union itself, even after the ...

More from Wes about the causes of the Civil War. What led to ... territorial expansion. The South wished to take slavery into the western territories, while the North was committed to keeping ...

As the deadliest war in United States history, the Civil War is a period many would like to forget. However, it’s impossible to erase the importance of a multi-year conflict that almost ...

In 1860, Fort Sumter, the federal sea fortress guarding Charleston, became a flash point in the tensions between North ... Civil War. Larson calls it "the single most consequential day in American ...