United StatesQuestion 73 (2008 list) · The 1800s

Name the U.S. war between the North and the South.

  1. aThe Revolutionary War
  2. bThe War of 1812
  3. cThe Civil WarCorrect answer
  4. dThe Mexican-American War

Why?

The war between the North and the South was the Civil War, from 1861 to 1865. You could also call it “the War between the States.”

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Questions and answers: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), 128 Civics Questions and Answers (2025 version), M-1778, and Civics Questions and Answers (2008 version), rev. 08/21 — public domain. USCIS accepts other answers too; we show one of them. The wrong options and the explanations are ours. Not affiliated with or endorsed by USCIS.

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