1. Answer the following questions in your notebook:
Civil Wars
Answer the following questions in your notebook:

2. 1. What is a civil war?
2. What caused the American civil war?
3. What two sides were fighting in the American civil war and what were they fighting for?
4. What were the outcomes of the American civil war?
5. List any other civil war you have learned about.
6. Do you know of any civil wars that are going on in our world currently?
7. How are civil wars of today fought differently than civil wars in the 1800s like the American civil war?

3. Ongoing conflicts around the world
  Maroon: Major wars, 1,000+ deaths per year
  Yellow: Minor skirmishes and conflicts, fewer than 1000 deaths per year

4. Syria