The Civil War’s Biggest Impact on the World Today Imagine working for 18 hours straight in the hot southern days, without pay. Where you were whipped for simple mistakes. Where, even in the winter’s you had no clothes, shoes, beds or even blankets. For around 4,000,000 black americans they didn’t have to imagine it, this was their reality. There was a war against the North and the South over the controversial topic of slavery. Luckily, slavery was abolished by the end of this long and deadly war. But it was not easy. The process was long and dangerous and many lives were lost in the war we now call the Civil War. The most influential effect of this war was slavery was abolished in the United States. The civil war was a bloody war between