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

Why this is the answer

The war between the North and the South was the Civil War, fought from 1861 to 1865. In it, people of the same country fought each other: eleven Southern states left the United States and tried to form a nation of their own, the Confederate States of America. The Northern army was known as the Union army. The study guide names slavery as one problem that led to the war. As the country grew west, many slaveholders in the South wanted slavery to be legal in the new states and territories, while most Northern states had outlawed it and many Northerners wanted to keep it out of the West. Each side feared the other would impose its view on the whole country. The guide also lists economic reasons and states' rights. The 2008 lessons add that the Southern states feared the national government would end slavery and believed this would hurt their economic and political independence, while the North's economy was more industrial and did not depend on slavery. The first battle was at Fort Sumter, South Carolina, and the first major battle at Bull Run, in Manassas, Virginia, in July 1861. Most of the fighting took place in the South. The war ended in 1865 with the capture of Richmond, the Confederate capital, and General Robert E. Lee's surrender to Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse. People who studied older material may also know it as "the War between the States," another name the 2008 lessons give for the same war. For the 2025 test, the phrase to learn is "the Civil War." A war against a foreign country can never be right here, since both sides were American. If you picture a country split in two, North against South, the name comes easily.