But the purpose of the Civil War had now changed. The North was not only ... Thousands had been injured. The southern landscape was devastated. A new chapter in American history opened as the ...

More from Wes about the causes of the Civil War. What led to ... territorial expansion. The South wished to take slavery into the western territories, while the North was committed to keeping ...

The N.C. History Center on the Civil War, Emancipation & Reconstruction is hosting a two-day symposium for educators in ...

Andrew: The north mourned an immortal political hero. In the south they celebrated. One Texan newspaper professed itself “thrilled by the death of our oppressor." The American Civil War left a ...

During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell ... Eli Wizevich The decline of the American South's cotton and sugar industries paved the ...