How Did The Civil War Affect The Rest Of The United States?

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How did the Civil War affect the rest of the United States? The Civil War was a significant battle for the United States, affecting the rest of America in many ways. The war would change the way that people saw things and the way they lived their life would change. The Civil War was a battle between the United States and the Confederate States, the United States wanted to abolish slavery and outlaw it everywhere in the South, while the Confederate States wanted to make slavery legal and have the right to own people. The South was dependent on its slaves because they were the main reason for the South’s success. This created significant problems between the two parties and pushed them to go to war over their own beliefs. Abraham Lincoln declared …show more content…

During this time many new and interesting things happened, like how run-away slaves would join the United States in their war against the South and would risk death or severe beatings because they ran away. There were many reasons how the world was affected by the Civil War, the abolishment of slavery, the U.S. economy benefited after the war, and the U.S. developed as a world power. African Americans were the perfect candidate for slavery, they were easily identifiable due to their skin color, they could work better than other minorities, and people could get away with mistreating them because they weren’t thought of as people, as more than objects that could be exploited. After the United States defeated the Confederate States in the war, slavery was abolished and finally, after over a century, the people that had been victims of slavery were set free. They were able to work the jobs they wanted and they would be paid for it and would be …show more content…

For over a century, Great Britain had been the largest and most powerful country in the world. That is until the United States won the Civil War and began to grow its industries. After the Civil War, the United States was able to surpass the British in shipping goods and manufacturing them making them a global power and they were well on their way to becoming much more powerful than Great Britain. The United States continued to build new inventions like the steam engine, which is used for steamboats, and the railroads which helped people all over America travel much faster and were less expensive than any other form of transportation at the time. The United States was able to grow its economy with the help of the industrial revolution by offering more jobs to people, which made people migrate to the United States more, which made the United States more money. This made them much more powerful and developed them as a world power. Their increase in productivity helped them improve their economy, which in turn helped them become a world power, “Its economy took off after the Civil War. Between 1865 and 1898, coal production rose by 800 percent and railway track mileage by 567 percent. By the middle of the 1880s, the United States had surpassed Britain as the world’s leading producer of manufactured goods and steel.” As you can see the United

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