From 1861 to 1865, the United States fought the bloodiest conflict in its history, a war that killed 620,000 soldiers and ended with the abolition of slavery and the question of what kind of nation America would be.
The Road to DisunionThe American Civil War had its deepest roots in the institution of slavery, which the American Revolution had failed to resolve and which grew more entrenched in the South as cotton became the foundation of its entire economy. By 1860, four million enslaved people lived in the So...
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