Princeton's WordNet(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition: 1  fauna, zoology(noun) all the animal life in a particular region or period. the fauna of China; the zoology of the Pliocene epoch. 2  zoology, zoological science(noun) the branch of biology that studies animals.
The American Civil War, widely known in the United States as simply the Civil War as well as other sectional names, was a civil war fought from 1861 to 1865 to determine the survival of the Union or independence for the Confederacy.
1. Civil Rights. The Southern Black Codes defined the rights of freedmen. They mainly restricted their rights. But the codes did grant black persons a few more civil rights than they possessed before the Civil War.any Northerners saw these codes as blatant attempts to restore slavery. Five days after the Civil War ended, President Abraham Lincoln was shot. He died on April 15, 1865, and Vice President Andrew Johnson assumed the presidency. The task of reuniting the nation fell on his shoulders.