War1861 CE – 1865 CEAmericas

American Civil War

A conflict between the Union and Confederate states over slavery and states' rights that resulted in abolition and the preservation of the United States.

Key Figures

Abraham Lincoln Robert E. Lee Ulysses S. Grant Frederick Douglass

Preceding Causes

Slavery expansion into western territories, states' rights, economic differences between industrial North and agrarian South, and Lincoln's election.

Colonialism1526 CE

Atlantic Slave Trade

The forced transportation of an estimated 12.5 million Africans across the Atlantic to the Americas as enslaved labor over more than three centuries, one of history's greatest crimes against humanity.

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