United States Civil War

The Civil War was the war fought between the North and the South of America over slavery. The northerners were primarily abolitionists, or people against slavery, the southerners were confederates, or in other words people supporting slavery. of slavery and owned many slaves themselves. The leader of the abolitionists was president Abraham Lincoln. He chose Ulysses Grant to be his general.  The Union was the North and the Confederacy was the South. 

The north had many advantages. It had industry, which supplied its weapons, railroads, which made traveling faster and much more. 

1862 - the Union stepped up it's defence

April 6th 1861- there was confusion, blood, and gun smoke.The victory went to the North, who at the time had general George Mc Cloen.The big test was on July 21 1821. It was Union vs Confederacy. The the Union surprised that the Confederacy held their grounds . 

April 1865 was the last battle.

robert e Lee was the Confederate general. 

Then the Emancipation Proclamation came out as a punishment to the south for fighting against the North.   

Many people were dead. It was dreadful.

Immigration

Immigration to the United States may be divided into two distinct periods. They had distinctive reasons for emigrating from their native lands, and for choosing North America.
ಬೆಫಾರೆ ದಿ ಸಿವಿಲ್ ವರ್, mostly Immigration is when people move from one country to another. This is what happened in America. The cities were flooded with people. This happened because of the gold rush. The gold rush was when gold was discovered in California. People from every country imaginable fled to America. it was as if the colonial times were repeating. Then with the British, Spaniards, and French and now with people from around the world. Our country was founded by immigrants, but now they were being treated very harshly. Before the civil war immigrants came and were not bothered with. Now the African Americans were free and more people were coming the Americans were desperate to get rid of all these people. They started by not allowing any more Chinese immigrants to come. The immigrants were already miserable, but to make things worse the were discriminated against, The thought they were blessed if anyone in the family went to school.