The civil war started in 1861 and ended in 1865. The war was fought from southern pennsylvania to texas, from new mexico to the florida coast. Most of the war was fought in virginia and tennessee. One of the many reason the civil war started was because of slavery. There were many strict differences between the free states and the slave states. In september 1862 the emancipation proclamation was in play and all slaves including free and runaway slaves came and volunteer for the Union cause in large numbers. In 1863 lincoln passed the emancipation proclamation to end slavery. …show more content…
Slavery was practiced throughout the American colonies in the 17th and 18th centuries, and African-American slaves helped build the economic foundations of the new nation. The invention of the cotton gin in 1793 solidified the central importance of slavery to the South’s