Civics question 92 of 128

Name the U.S. war between the North and the South.

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Background

The Civil War was the U.S. war between the North and the South. It ran from 1861 to 1865, beginning when Confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor and ending with Lee's surrender at Appomattox. Eleven Southern states declared they were leaving the Union after Lincoln's election, and the future of slavery was the cause, which the seceding states named plainly in their own declarations. Roughly 620,000 soldiers died, more than in every other American war combined until Vietnam, and disease killed about twice as many as combat did. The outcome settled two constitutional questions: a state cannot leave the Union, and slavery was abolished by the Thirteenth Amendment. Regional names for the war vary, but the test wants the Civil War.

This background section is written by US Citizenship Test Practice to explain the civics fact. It is not part of the USCIS question list, and the official answer above is the one to give at the interview.

Where this question sits

It is part of 1800s, inside the American History section of the test.

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