However, it lasted for almost 4 years. It ended in Apil 1865 when the Confederate armies made their surrender to the US. The Civil War is also called as The War Between the States. Amid the Civil War, the bondage was the tradition that must be adhered to, north, and south, until the mid nineteenth century. It was amassed in the southern states, where slaves were utilized as ranch workers and shaped the foundation of the southern economy.