5V U2P3 American Civil War

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The Battles of the Civil War

The American civil war was between

1. The north and the south states
2. The east and the west states
3. The British and the Americans
4. The Americans and the Native Americans

What was the name of the Southern states?

1. The Union
2. The Confederacy

Which of these best describes what the North and South were fighting over?

1. The issue of slavery
2. Taxation without representation
4. The desire for independence

What does secede mean?

1. to win
2. to leave
3. to give up
4. to lose

The Start

Convinced that white supremacy and slavery were threatened by the November 1860 election of Republican Abraham Lincoln to the U.S. presidency , the 7 slave states seceded from the United States, with the loyal states becoming known as the Union during the following American Civil War.

The real ending 

- Surrender of  Confederate general Robert E. Lee

- April 1865

- Battle of Appomattox Courthouse in Virginia 

- June

- South surrendered 

- Union won

- 618,000 killed

- 350,000 injured