The United States of America has come a long way to live up to the nickname, “The Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave.” It has gone through a successful Revolutionary War to emancipate itself from Great Britain and managed to flourish into a lucrative country. As this happened, many discrepancies managed to divide the once congenial country and fabricate a Civil War. The Civil War can easily be seen as the second American Revolution, considering it brought about significant change in history in the social, political, and economic aspects.
In the social aspect, just as freedom of speech and religion was a problem for the colonies in the American Revolution, slavery was a major problem during the Civil war. The establishment of slavery …show more content…
One of the many being that they essentially acted as two separate countries. Also, they believed they had no say in the government. The North and the South lived very differently, thus wanting different things for their respective states. The South, being the slave states did not want abolition to become a nationwide law. From the perspective of the South, their retaliation was similar to the American Revolution. They thought they were fighting the same fight, the right to govern themselves rather than be controlled by some far away government all over …show more content…
The development of an economy based on the use of slave labor in the South to produce staple crops through a plantation system was extremely different to the more diverse economy in the North based on free labor summarized the development of two economies within one country which would later show incompatibility. As a result, one side was more prosperous than, that side being the North, and left the South struggling. The cost of the war was appalling. More American soldiers lost their lives than in all other wars combined from the colonial period through the last phase of the Vietnam War. The war brought wide-scale economic destruction to the Confederate states, which lost two-thirds of their
In the social aspect, just as freedom of speech and religion was a problem for the colonies in the American Revolution, slavery was a major problem during the Civil war. The establishment of slavery …show more content…
One of the many being that they essentially acted as two separate countries. Also, they believed they had no say in the government. The North and the South lived very differently, thus wanting different things for their respective states. The South, being the slave states did not want abolition to become a nationwide law. From the perspective of the South, their retaliation was similar to the American Revolution. They thought they were fighting the same fight, the right to govern themselves rather than be controlled by some far away government all over …show more content…
The development of an economy based on the use of slave labor in the South to produce staple crops through a plantation system was extremely different to the more diverse economy in the North based on free labor summarized the development of two economies within one country which would later show incompatibility. As a result, one side was more prosperous than, that side being the North, and left the South struggling. The cost of the war was appalling. More American soldiers lost their lives than in all other wars combined from the colonial period through the last phase of the Vietnam War. The war brought wide-scale economic destruction to the Confederate states, which lost two-thirds of their