The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known as the American War of Independence) was a civil war in the United States. It was fought between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed by secessionist states.
The central cause of the war was a disagreement over whether slavery would be allowed to expand into western territories, resulting in more slave states, or whether it would be prohibited, putting slavery on a path to extinction.
Decades of political debate over slavery were brought to a head by Abraham Lincoln's victory in the 1860 U.S. presidential election, who opposed slavery's expansion into the west. Following Lincoln's victory, seven southern slave states seceded from the Union and formed the Confederacy in 1861.
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