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Name: American Civil War
Type: Event
Start: 1860
End: 1865
Children: Eastern Theatre (American Civil War), Lower Seaboard Theatre, Secession of the Free State of Jones, Secession Phase, Trans-Mississippi Theatre, Valley Campaigns of 1864, Western Theatre of the American Civil War
American Civil War: All Data
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Was a civil war in the United States of America between the central government (Unionists) and the secessionist Confederate States of America that occupied the southern States. The main cause of the war was the different economic system of the northern and southern states: the northern states were industrialized and had abolished slavery, whereas the southern states relied on slavery to run its plantation agriculture based economy. At the end of the war the Union occupied the southern states and slavery was abolished. .