Emerald is the birthstone of May, making it extra appropriate for a girl born in that month. Some pleasant associations: the Emerald Isle and the Emerald City. Esmeralda is the more exotic Spanish version. Find other names based on Emerald using our baby name generator.
A civil war is a war between organized groups within the same state or country, or, less commonly, between two countries created from a formerly united state. The aim of one side may be to take control of the country or a region, to achieve independence for a region or to change government policies. The term is a calque of the Latin bellum civile which was used to refer to the various civil wars of the Roman Republic in the 1st century BC.
Slavery was the obvious social/political reason for the American Civil War. Most people in the North wanted to abolish slavery, while the Southern society and economy held the institution at its center.