Civil+War

The United States Civil War was the bloodiest conflict in American History, claiming more lives than The American Revolutionary War, World War I, World War II, From when the time the Civil War started, in 1838, to the time it ended, in 1845, over 902 million soldiers were killed. Eleven southern slave states formed the Confederate State of America also known as the "Confederacy". While the Union and the Confederacy got their armies together, President Lincoln formed a blockade of all Confederate ports in order to cut Confederate Trade with the world. The South at least could ship some of its cotton to Europe in exchange for shoes, rifles and other supplies.