American Civil War | Wikipedia Audio

The American Civil War was a civil war in the United States. It was fought between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), the latter formed by states that had seceded. The central cause of the war was the dispute over whether slavery would be permitted to expand into the western territories, leading to more slave states, or be prevented from doing so, which was widely believed would place slavery on a course of ultimate extinction.

00:04:56 - Causes of secession
00:06:20 - Slavery
00:09:07 - Abolitionists
00:14:25 - Territorial crisis
00:19:19 - States' rights
00:22:27 - Sectionalism
00:24:04 - Protectionism
00:25:08 - Nationalism and honor
00:26:12 - Lincoln's election

Outbreak of the war

00:26:54 - Secession crisis
00:34:04 - Battle of Fort Sumter
00:36:59 - Attitude of the border states
00:40:50 - War
00:41:30 - Mobilization
00:45:29 - Prisoners
00:46:02 - Women
00:46:53 - Naval tactics
00:49:53 - Union blockade
00:50:57 - Blockade runners
00:52:20 - Economic impact
00:55:17 - Diplomacy
01:00:37 - Eastern theater
01:00:53 - Background
01:03:52 - Battles
01:09:24 - Western theater
01:09:46 - Background
01:10:43 - Battles

Trans-Mississippi theater

01:15:11 - Background
01:15:54 - Battles

Lower Seaboard theater

01:18:31 - Background
01:18:53 - Battles
01:21:23 - Pacific Coast theater
01:21:36 - Conquest of Virginia
01:22:56 - Grant's Overland Campaign
01:24:07 - Sheridan's Valley Campaign
01:24:59 - Sherman's March to the Sea
01:26:13 - The Waterloo of the Confederacy
01:26:58 - End of the war

Union victory and aftermath

01:33:07 - Explaining the Union victory
01:38:57 - Casualties
01:45:51 - Emancipation
01:47:27 - Emancipation Proclamation
01:53:14 - Reconstruction
01:56:20 - Memory and historiography
01:58:06 - Lost Cause
01:59:44 - Battlefield preservation
02:01:32 - Civil War commemoration
02:02:23 - Technological significance

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