Throughout the American Civil War that began in the year 1861 and came to an end in 1865. the North (or the Union) was used to refer to the U.S.A. and particularly the government of Abraham Lincoln and those twenty free states and 4 frontier and slave states that gave support to it. On the other hand, those states that opposed this union were known as the Confederate States of America. However, most of the people from North asserted that they were fighting to keep the Union intact
