when was the civil war fought?

Question

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yes us civil war

Answer 1

1861-65 if its the US Civil War youre talking about.

Answer 2

The Civil War (or as it is still called in the South, The War Between The States) was fought over what is (improperly) termed "State's Rights". (Aside: states have no rights, they have powers; only human beings can have rights. The issue truly should be called "State's Powers". The Constitution gets it right, of course, in Article X, reserving POWERS to the States.) The Southern States decided to secede after a number of things that were going on told them that they were not going to be able to preserve their powers in the Union. These things included: (1) the tariff laws (the amount of money to be paid the government in imports and exporting of goods to and from other nations) were biased toward the industrial north, and against the more agricultural south. (2) for a long time, there had been a need to keep the "south" even with the "north" in Congress, so that they had the same number of Senators at least. But population growth had made the south a minority in the House of Representatives, and America was running out of naturally "southern-leaning" places to make into new states, meaning that the "north" would also take control (and already had essentially taken control) of the Senate too, and the South saw this as only leading to more laws that favored the north over the south. (3) the election of Abraham Lincoln was also very sectional, and again showed the South that their votes didn't matter, even in Presidential elections, and that they could likely not hope to get a "southern" leaning man into the White House. They feared that a northern Congress and a northern President would continue to overrun the southern states, essentially moving money from the south to the north (which was happening). (4) the South had attempted to halt federal incursions onto the powers of the States through "nullification" and Supreme Court battles, but were rebuffed at every turn. The South felt that the nation had abandoned some of its basic principles, especially the fact that local governments should be supreme to the federal government in every single thing except the very very few things that the Constitution lists as being federal responsibility. The Confederacy essentially adopted the original U.S. Constitution (with very few changes) and made a commitment to stick to it better than they thought the U.S.A. had. Even the Confederate Constitution was not a pro-slavery document, and it anticipated the eventual end of slavery. The fact that the South held slaves and the north didn't was not really the reason for the war -- it is just that this was one of the great many differences between the two sides. As the war progressed, the wish to end slavery became more of a rallying cry in the north than it was to begin with. In fact, although abolition of slavery was definitely something that a lot of people in the north wished for before the war, and during the early part of the war, it was not as big an issue as we now think of it. Even when Lincoln gave his Gettysburg Address, the "new birth of freedom" he talked about had nothing to do with freeing the slaves (but now, of course, it seems like it did). Lincoln freed the slaves and made it a goal of the war only when the war was going poorly and he needed to rouse popular support in the north to keep the war going.

Answer 3

1861--1865,the USA Civil War

Answer 4

1861-1865

Answer 5

1861-1865

Answer 6

it was fought between 1861-1865

Answer 7

1860-1864

Answer 8

It is being fought as we speak in Iraq

Answer 9

....a long time ago........