"The American Civil War (1861-1865) was the pivotal event in United States history and the largest armed conflict in the Western world following the end of the Napoleonic Wars (1815) and prior to the beginning of the First World War (1914). The central cause of the war was the institution of slavery, which had increasingly caused conflict between Southern states, which relied heavily on slave labor for their agrarian economy, and Northern states, which were heavily industrialized and had far less need for slaves."
"The war ended slavery in the United States, & it cost upwards of 650,000 lives. The war ended slavery in the United States, abolished by the Thirteenth Amendment, destroyed the plantation system and agrarian economy of the South, further industrialized the North, and cost upwards of 650,000 lives."
The American Civil War (1861–1865) resulted from the institution of slavery and the growing economic and political divergence between the agrarian, slaveholding South and the industrialized North. Southern states seceded to preserve slavery, as indicated by secession documents from slaveholding states. Major hostilities began with the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter on 12 April 1861 and effectively ended with Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House on 9 April 1865, with remaining surrenders concluding by 26 May 1865. The war abolished slavery through the Thirteenth Amendment, destroyed the Southern plantation economy, accelerated Northern industrialization, caused over 650,000 deaths, and led into the Reconstruction Era (1865–1877) to reunify the nation.
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