The American Civil war was fought in 1861 to 1865. The war fought was between Northern states and southern states. The northern and the southern states had several differences that led to the civil war. Slavery was one of the major reasons behind the civil war, as the northern were against the slavery, while southern wanted to maintain the slavery. There were reasons other than slavery that led to the civil war, some of them include social, political, and economical differences. The publication in 1852 of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin aroused wide northern sympathy for slaves. The book describes, what it was like to be a slave in the south. The book was an instant seller and convinced the northern people that slavery should
