The Civil War

Why was the civil war and when?

 The American Civil War was from 1861 to 1865. It broke out because they were against slavery, the war broke out in April 1861, when the forces of the Confederate States of America attacked Fort Sumter in South Carolina, at which time Abraham Lincoln took office.

United States in February 1861, seven southern slave states declared their secession from the United States to form the Confederate States of America.   

In the United States prior to 1865, a slave state was a state in which slavery and the internal or domestic slave trade were legal, while a free state was one in which they were prohibited. Between 1812 and 1850, the slave states considered it politically imperative that the number of free states not exceed the number of slave states, so new states were admitted in free pairs of slaves. Nonetheless, there were some slaves in most free states until the 1840 census, and the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 specifically stated that a slave did not become free upon entering a free state.

Although the Native Americans had slavery on a small scale, slavery in what would become the United States was established as part of European colonization. In the 18th century, slavery was legal in the Thirteen Colonies, after which the rebellious colonies began to abolish the practice.