Reason 3: The Civil War was a war of firsts. Many black men who were freed by the Emancipation Proclamation opted to fight in the war. This war was the first was of our country fighting itself. It helped our country make progress and solve problems. It was the first war fought with black men and white men together. The war was the spark of an era of segregation with free blacks. The war would lead to one of the first low points ever in our Government's history. Reason 11: The war created an industrial america. The North had the more factories and the South was more of a plantation area. With the release of slaves the Southern economy slowed down making the North the industrial area. This would lead to an industrial revolution. The growth …show more content…
In the Civil War not only was the life of the Union but also the form of government in our unique world. The question of whether republican government which was such a new idea in our world could survive a big threatening political and military crisis. Could such a form of government which was a nation “of people by the people, and for the people” survive this big thereat and not be gone from the earth. People thought that the war was all about Abraham Lincoln and freeing slaves and not the fact that our government form was at stake. The Civil War settled this issue and that our Republican form of government survived is one big reason which made the Civil War one of the great critical moments our government's history, and worthy of being studied. Reason 5: The Civil War helped abolish slavery with the Emancipation Proclamation. When the war began slavery was a part of the Constitution in the area it was already in. Before the war began, in the mind of Abraham Lincoln the war was meant to save the Union and completely abolish slavery. Lincoln during the war wanted to either save slavery or abolish it. In 1862 Lincoln framed the Emancipation Proclamation and it went into effect on January 1, 1863. Reason