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=Civil War= The Civil War was fought by the Confederacy in the South, and the Union in the North. The war was fought between Americans and brothers fought against brothers. In order to avoid fighting against his friends from Virginia, Robert E. Lee, a skilled senior officer in the Army, decided to fight for the South. During the Civil War Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed the slaves in the states fighting against the Union. This gave the North more reason to fight, it changed it from a war of preserving the nation, to a war of liberating the slaves. During the Reconstruction period, Congress passed the Fifteenth Amendment, which gave every American citizen the right to vote regardless of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude." It was ratified by March 1870.