As the deadliest war in United States history, the Civil War is a period many would like to forget. However, it’s impossible ...

More from Wes about the causes of the Civil War. What led to ... territorial expansion. The South wished to take slavery into the western territories, while the North was committed to keeping ...

The North wanted to block the spread of slavery. They were also concerned that an extra slave state would give the South a political advantage. The South thought new states should be free to allow ...

For many years, historians have relied on a rough estimate of war dead from the U.S. Civil War. Because records for such deaths in the South were inaccurate, historians counted war deaths in the ...

Settled by the English in 1670, the colony named for King Charles I was split into North and ... history. The Civil War devastated South Carolina’s population and economy, but the state started ...