Prior experience with US History /Civil War..

            I've had a lot of experience with US history, but only from WW1 until now. Everything before that i still need a little work on, its not my favorite part of history either. I had to write essays about world war 2 and whether or not it was right for us to practice Isolationism.  I know about the treaty of Versailles  (really pissed off the Germans)that was set after world war one, and which i think is one of the reasons that helped spark World War two .
            In my history classes from High School, i did have to write a lot of essays and summaries about the events that happened in that time and about current events happening now. Hopefully that will help me in English. There are some things that i think i need to refresh on but over all i think my prior knowledge of history  after the civil war will help me a lot in both my history and my English class. Well that's all i can say about my prior experiences, with US history.
                                                  
           What i know about the Civil War....

           I know that most people think that the civil war was based solely on Slavery, but it was actually the taxes on Cotton, slavery was a contributor, and of course it was a conflict between North and South ( Union and Confederacy). It was from 1861 and 1865. Abraham Lincoln was president. The North won... some of the biggest generals in the civil war were Ulysses S. Grant on the Union side, and Robert E. Lee on the Confederate side. It was considered one of the bloodiest wars in US history, with over 620,000 casualties.  It was the only secession in US history, the south wanted to break away from the United States to form their own country.  Jefferson Davis was appointed President of the new Confederate States, which consisted of North and South Carolina, Virgina, Georgia, Tennessee, Mississippi, Texas, Louisiana, Florida, Alabama, and Arkansas. The Civil war was first Industrialized war in US history. Well.... that's all i can really remember about the Civil War and hopefully this knowledge will help me do better in History 17b.