Why was the Civil a war for freedom? The Civil war was a war for freedom because when Abraham Lincoln was President he thought that there should be a new birth of freedom. (read this sentence) During the war the nation’s effort to come to terms the destruction of slavery and to define the meaning of freedom. The Civil War did not begin as a total war but it soon became one, a struggle that pitted society against society.Never before had mass armies confronted mass each other on the battlefield with deadly weapons created by the industrial revolution. The Civil War was about freedom because towards the end of the war when slavery started to die down they realized they were fighting for freedom instead of slavery. (www.civilwar.org) Firstly, the Civil War was for freedom because of slavery. Slavery brought far reaching changes into the lives of southerners because they could sell slaves and have them do their work for them. Slaves were captured and held at will. Slaves wanted to be free because some were going to be sold or they didn’t have enough to eat so all they could really do was run away from their masters. If they were caught on the run than they would be punished by their masters.”Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did …show more content…
When they won the war they made amendments to with the Cconstitution and then women started to get paid and they even got to vote,unfinished work and new birth of freedom.(The Gettysburg Address- this is from the lecture; Gettysburg Address is at the top) No summary