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

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The U.S. war between the North and the South was the Civil War.

The war was fought from 1861 to 1865 between the Union, the United States government and the states that stayed loyal to it in the North, and the Confederacy, made up of Southern states that tried to break away. It began on April 12, 1861, when Confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolina.

Slavery was a central cause of the war. During the fighting, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, and after the war, the 13th Amendment ended slavery throughout the country.

The main Confederate army surrendered at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, on April 9, 1865, though some Confederate forces surrendered later. Days after Appomattox, Lincoln was assassinated.

Many questions on the test connect to the Civil War, including what ended slavery, Lincoln's role, and the amendments that followed.

At the interview, say "the Civil War."