How Civil War Changed The Nature Of American Society

After the Civil War, the advanced industrial civilization in the north gradually intruded into the southern civilization. And the social structure and economic structure of the southern society have undergone profound changes. The economy of slavery and plantation gradually collapsed, and the old South is losing its economic base that people need to live by. Many people almost lost all they have overnight. A large number of manors closed and the nobles lost their means of production. Labor forces were liberated from the land and flocked to cities, accelerating the development of industrial capitalism and the process of urbanization. Socio-economic changes directly led to cultural changes in the mind. Except those who died in the Civil War,

After four years of gruesome fighting, the Civil War ended, leaving the South, confederate territory, in ruins and defeat. The North’s advantage over the South was industrialization and this led to their victory over the South. In order to move on from the war reconstruction is essential. However, this became a major controversy on how much power the South should have and the creation of methods to enforce the new laws with the abolishment of slavery. The North struggles with strategies to improve the South without restarting the Civil War. Also there was difficulty incorporating the former slaves into everyday society without confederate backlash. The failure of the reconstruction was because of the actions that were took by the presidents between 1865 and 1877. Republican President Ulysses S. Grant influenced the failure of

The four-year-long Civil War left the United States in a tattered state with 680,000 to 700,000 Americans dead- not including civilians (Anderson 6). This number is greater than the number of American deaths of World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War combined (Anderson 6). Furthermore, because the South had lost the Civil War to the North, it now had to change its state governments and laws. The American government struggled to repair the nation ineffectively through Presidential Reconstruction. Once the Presidential Reconstruction Era came to an end, Radical Reconstruction began (history.com).

Madison Moulton Mrs.Richards English/Per 7 Dec. 7, 2016 How did the Civil War Change Americans Today? The civil war had an HUGE impact on the way we view people today in the 21st century. This war took place in the United States, 1861 to 1865. On April 12, was the first day of the national Civil War happening.

After the Civil War ended, the United States began to reconstruct its broken Union. However, this renewal failed very severely. The primary reason for this was that it was more deeply rooted in the history of the United States and filled with American sectional and race relations. Many white Americans were not capable to recognize that blacks were equal beings too because they mostly had considered them as being lesser beings. This feeling caused the Reconstruction to fail.

The U.S. Civil War ended with America bruised as the nation needed a path to unify on all fronts. President Lincoln stood as figure who would begin the task of restoration and integrate freedom of all people into American society. Reconstruction would be a difficult problem to achieve, especially with the states of the South challenging the Emancipation and a nation licking deep wounds. President Lincoln wanted the nation to heal quickly, and his blueprint for Reconstruction would have provided the unity that the nation needed for healing an unity.

After the Civil War, there was so much damage done to the United States between the Southern states and the Northern states. The Northern states wanted to end slavery but the Southern states wanted slavery to still happen. During the war, there were a lot of Union and Confederate soldiers and slaves that died. The Union army had won the war and now the nation had to reunite. Reconstruction was a failure because the government didn't meet its goal with the violence and discrimination towards the former slaves.

As soon as President Andrew Johnson signed a Proclamation which promised order and peace to the United States on August 20th, 1865, the Civil War was formally ended. Though the Confederates had been dominated, there was still a battle to preserve the Southern lifestyle against the impeding Northern republican ideals. President Lincoln had plans to peacefully restore the country to the Union it was prior to the war, but his assassination created set-backs to his plan. While both the North and the South were working toward reconciliation in the nation, the north was more interested in creating a controlling, centralized government while the south was concerned with protecting and preserving their southern customs and ideals. While there were many attempts at reconstructing, the Reconstruction era ultimately failed at unifying the Union under agreed terms due to the constant disagreements between the north and the south.

Beginning in 1861, the civil war was fought over many political questions regarding slavery, yet was barely focused on the actual freedom of the slaves themselves. It is often taught that the Union fought for the freedom of slaves at the beginning of the war. However, it is more accurate to say that Abraham Lincoln’s primary goal at the beginning of the war was to reunite the Union after the majority of the slave-owning states seceded to protect their way of life: slavery. Yet, by the end of the war, the Union’s goal was to free the slaves. Though the laws securing slaves freedom and suffrage were contributed to by many, the primary driving forces behind them was the African Americans. Through their willingness to fight and support the Union cause, African Americans made the United States acknowledge their struggles and transformed the war into a fight for reconnection and freedom. Though hindered by racist people and policies, the African Americans’ participation during the war and Reconstruction greatly contributed to tremendous cultural change as well as the securing of legal rights to blacks.

The Civil War took a lot of money and strength from the United States and many other countries. The amount of causalities added up on both sides surpassed a million. The amounts of deaths were also more than any other American war, excluding the Vietnam War. However, the Civil War impacted America in many other ways. Overall, the civil war brought many changes to the nation; it changed the political land, economy, and the social lifestyle of almost every American citizen.

The outburst of the Civil War forever changed the future of the American nation. At first, it began as a fight to protect the Union, not as a struggle to free the slaves. Many citizens from the North and South felt that the conflict would ultimately decide both issues. Slavery was one of the primary issues which physically divided the northern U.S. from the Southern U.S. during the Civil War. Even after the Reconstruction Era it continue to divide the two. The Southern resistance to ending slavery was the main reason as to why the South believed in rejecting outsider ideals and it helped establish the Southern Code of Honor that emphasizes aggression and violence.

No longer having to provide slave work for whites, the African Americans began to become more knowledgeable about the privileges that they would be able to have. They began to fight for the right to vote and the right to land. Among fighting for

The Civil War had revolutionary effects on American society, the most important of which was the destruction of slavery, the fundamental institution of southern society. The emancipation of America’s 4 million slaves, in numbers, scale, and economic value, was far greater than any other emancipation of slaves or serfs (in Russia) in the world. At the war’s beginning, Lincoln identified the North’s cause with the cause of free labor. But Lincoln also initially stated that the conflict was not being fought to end or limit slavery, but to preserve the Union. He wanted to keep the border slave states of Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri in the Union and build the broadest possible base of support for the war in the North.

During the Civil War, certain events had taken place that have changed our nation as a whole. The social aspect of these changes to our country have shifted the way we interact with each other from the end of the Civil War to present day. A major social change that occurred during the war resulted from the Emancipation Proclamation. Although this social change took place during the war, its effects lasted well past the end of the Civil war. The change was how people negatively viewed the freed slaves and how they reacted to them integrating within their society. There were also positive social changes that resulted from the war regarding a woman’s role in society. As a result of the men fighting in the war, the women were able to take on roles that they would never normally do. The social changes that occurred in our country as a result

​The effects of the Civil War brought about changes in the United States. The country had to answer the question: To what level of moral and ethical conduct do we want Americans to be held? Loyalties were seriously evaluated. People had to decide if they held their loyalty to the country as a whole, their state, their families, or even to humanity as a whole. They had to decide if it was right to own another person, or if the slavery system was justified as a way to keep the Southern economy going. Through all this contemplation, people wrote about their thoughts and fears, and as a result, people abandoned romanticism and became realists. Many writings of the Civil War, whether informational or literary, reflect