Civil War Vs American Revolution

The American Civil War is the central event in shaping America’s history. While the American Revolution created the United States, the Civil War determined what type of nation it will be History.com Staff (2009) . The war resolved two fundamental questions: whether the United States was to be a dissolvable confederation of sovereign states, or an indivisible nation with a sovereign federal government; And whether this nation, established on the principles that all men are equally entitled to the same degree of liberty, would continue to exist as the largest slave holding country in the world History.com Staff (2009).
The American Civil War was and is still the deadliest war fought inside the boarders of the United States History.com Staff