how/ why/ when did the American civil war end?

Answer 1

It ended in 1865, it ended because the South was demolished after General Grant went through and burned everything. The South also had less manpower than the North nor did it have as many raw materials or overall goods as the North did. The treaty was signed as Apommottox Courthouse between Lee and Grants although General Chamberlin was there.

Answer 2

The Civil War ended on April 15, 1865 at Appomattox, Virginia when Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Gen. U.S. Grant. It ended because the South ran out of money, supplies, men and supporters and had no way to replenish these vital things. Also, the slaves had been freed and there was no longer really a reason to fight.

Answer 3

A short, accurate version of what could be a very lengthy answer...but I won't do that as one poster already did.

HOW: The Confederacy was unable to continue military operations. The Confederacy had been split in two with the fall of Vicksburg, all Confederate ports were blockaded cutting off aid from overseas, and the Confederate government was unable to support its troops. The numbers of Confederate forces were diminishing due to attrition, with no replaclements available as the population of the North was more than double that of the South. Large portions of the South was laid waste by Yankee troops, and the people were starving. The economy was in ruin by both the blockade and the freeing of the slaves.

WHY: On April 8, 1865 General Robert E. Lee, commander in chief of all Confederate forces, his army virtually surrounded at Appomatox Court House in Virginia, realized that further resistance on the part of his army would serve no purpose other than to completely and utterly destroy it, resulting in nothing but the useless death of his soldiers. He then sent a messenger to Grant under a white flag to request a meeting to discuss terms of surrender.

WHEN: On April 9, 1865, General Lee surrendered his army, the Army of Northern Virginia, to Union forces commanded by General Ulysses S. Grant. Union Brigadier General Joshua Chamberlain, the hero of Little Round Top at Gettysburg, was chosen by Grant to accept the surrender of arms the following day on April 10.

Answer 4

It ended with Lee's surrender at Appomattox on April 9, 1865. The Southern armies were totally defeated.

http://americancivilwar.com/appo.html

Answer 5

It ended because the south was defeated on the battlefield due to the superior numbers and technology of the north and was economically destroyed due to the blockade of southern ports by the Union navy.

Answer 6

Well, the south lost for starters, the civil war ended when the North had destroyed most of the south and cut off their supplies. But more simply, the North won when Lincoln defeated McClellan in the 1864 election and after Atlanta fell.

Answer 7

they attacked.we fought back. killed them two Yankees for every one Southerner killed.when Lincoln freed the slaves so they would help fight us then that turned the tide of the war,along with Sherman's army murdering so many Innocent children and women.and burning & stealing everything and Lee surrendered, I didn't surrender nor did my people, were the occupied C.S.A.
it lasted four years 1861 to 65.It was about states rights .Those Yankees had slaves also, you know, Gen Grant said he wasnt giving up his slaves,Lincoln said he was shipping ALL ****** to south america to colinize them .after he had the south destroyed. then some idiot shot him.
Damn Yankees.

Answer 8

The south ran out of moonshine.Seriously the north would have just kept coming.

Answer 9

The American Civil War (1861–1865) was a major war between the United States (the "Union") and eleven Southern slave states that declared their secession and formed the Confederate States of America, led by President Jefferson Davis. The Union, led by President Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Party, opposed the expansion of slavery and rejected any right of secession. Fighting commenced on April 12, 1861, when Confederate forces attacked a federal military installation at Fort Sumter in South Carolina.[1]

During the first year, the Union asserted control of the border states and established a naval blockade as both sides raised large armies. In 1862 large, bloody battles began, causing massive casualties as a result of new weapons and old battlefield tactics. In September 1862, Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation[2] made the freeing of the slaves a war goal, despite opposition from northern Copperheads who tolerated secession and slavery. Emancipation ensured that Britain and France would not intervene to help the Confederacy. In addition, the goal also allowed the Union to recruit African-Americans for reinforcements, a resource that the Confederacy did not dare exploit until it was too late. War Democrats reluctantly accepted emancipation as part of total war needed to save the Union. In the East, Robert E. Lee rolled up a series of Confederate victories over the Army of the Potomac, but his best general, Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, was killed at the Battle of Chancellorsville in May 1863.[3] Lee's invasion of the North was repulsed at the Battle of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania in July 1863;[4] he barely managed to escape back to Virginia. In the West, the Union Navy captured the port of New Orleans in 1862, and Ulysses S. Grant seized control of the Mississippi River by capturing Vicksburg, Mississippi in July 1863,[5] thus splitting the Confederacy.

By 1864, long-term Union advantages in geography, manpower, industry, finance, political organization and transportation were overwhelming the Confederacy. Grant fought a number of bloody battles with Lee in Virginia in the summer of 1864. Lee won most of the battles in a tactical sense but on the whole lost strategically, as he could not replace his casualties and was forced to retreat into trenches around his capital, Richmond, Virginia. Meanwhile, William Tecumseh Sherman captured Atlanta, Georgia.[6] Sherman's March to the Sea destroyed a hundred-mile-wide swath of Georgia. In 1865, the Confederacy collapsed after Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Court House; all slaves in the Confederacy were freed by the Emancipation Proclamation. Slaves outside Confederate control were freed by state action or by the Thirteenth Amendment.

The full restoration of the Union was the work of a highly contentious postwar era known as Reconstruction. The war produced about 970,000 casualties (3% of the population), including approximately 620,000 soldier deaths—two-thirds by disease.[7] The causes of the war, the reasons for its outcome, and even the name of the war itself are subjects of lingering controversy even today. The main results of the war were the restoration and strengthening of the Union, and the end of slavery in the United States.

Contents [hide]
1 Causes of the War
1.1 Note on causes
1.2 State rights
1.2.1 State rights and slavery in the territories
1.2.2 State rights and minority rights
1.2.3 State rights and secession
1.3 Slavery
1.3.1 Slavery in the territories
1.3.2 Slavery as a cause of the war
1.4 Rejection of compromise
1.5 Abolitionism
1.6 Uncle Tom’s Cabin
1.7 John Brown
1.8 Arguments for and against slavery
1.9 Economics
1.9.1 Regional economic differences
1.9.2 Free labor vs. pro-slavery arguments
1.10 Southern fears of modernization
1.11 Southern fears of Republican control
2 A house divided against itself
2.1 Secession winter
2.2 The Confederacy
2.3 The Union states
2.4 Border states
3 Overview
3.1 The war begins
3.2 Anaconda Plan and blockade, 1861
3.3 Eastern Theater 1861–1863
3.4 Western Theater 1861–1863
3.5 Trans-Mississippi Theater 1861–1865
3.6 End of the war 1864–1865
4 Slavery during the war
5 Threat of international intervention
6 Analysis of the outcome
6.1 Long-term economic factors
6.2 Political and diplomatic factors
6.3 Military factors
7 Aftermath
7.1 Reconstruction
8 See also
9 Notes
10 References
11 Cinema and television
11.1 Films about the war
11.2 Documentaries about the war
12 External links



Causes of the War
Main articles: Origins of the American Civil War, Timeline of events
Secession was caused by the coexistence of a slave-owning South and an increasingly anti-slavery North. Lincoln did not propose federal laws making slavery unlawful where it already existed, but he had, in his 1858 House Divided Speech, envisioned it as being set on "the course of ultimate extinction". Much of the political battle in the 1850s focused on the expansion of slavery into the newly created territories. Both North and South assumed that if slavery could not expand it would wither and die.

Southern fears of losing control of the federal government to antislavery forces, and northern fears that the slave power already controlled the government, brought the crisis to a head in the late 1850s. Sectional disagreements over the morality of slavery, the scope of democracy and the economic merits of free labor vs. slave plantations caused the Whig and "Know-Nothing" parties to collapse, and new ones to arise (the Free Soil Party in 1848, the Republicans in 1854, the Constitutional Union in 1860). In 1860, the last remaining national political party, the Democratic Party, split along sectional lines.

Other factors include states' rights, modernization, sectionalism, the nullification crisis, and economic differences between the North and South.