Zusammenfassung der Ressource
American Civil War
- How did it begin?
- Slavery was a big problem in the U.S
- Seven states of the south did not want to abolish slavery
- The northern states wanted to get rid of slavery
- When did it start and finish?
- Start: April 12th 1861
- End: May 9th 1865
- Facts
- A few days after the war ended, Abraham Lincoln was assasinated
- He was watching a play in the Fords theatre and was shot in the head
- He was shot in the head by John Wilkes Booth
- It was America's bloodiest war
- Roughly, 620,000 people lost their lives
- It was a war between the conferderates and the union