The Civil War lasted four years. From 1861 to 1865.
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write a short introduction eg. when it started and when it ended, who was involved. Basic information about the war.
The Republican governments in the south had difficulty after the Civil War because the people of the south were upset over losing the war. They resented reconstruction and the fact that they had to let go of their slaves.
Many Americans did indeed leave their jobs during the Civil War. They left the jobs partly because they were conscripted to service while other volunteered for the cause.
There was an increase of Afro-Americans in many areas of civilian and military life after the US Civil War. Certainly the "West" was a good place for freed slaves to go inasmuch as much of the new territories either had farmlands in which freed slaves had experience as well as handling livestock. Both these types of work were found in the South before the US Civil War.
Yes, they made things go BOOM