Similarities Between Civil War And Second American Revolution

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War had become inevitable, the South had succeeded from the Union, and the North was unwilling to let them go. Many consider the Civil War to be the Second American Revolution, due to certain similarities in the wars. A couple similarities in the wars is the fact that each was a fight for freedom and they both resulted in unity in the nation. The South was fighting for freedom from Northern oppression, and the colonists fought the Revolutionary War in order to break away from the British. The South and the colonists were similar in that in each an underfunded, undermanned and under gunned underdog sought independence from what they felt was an oppressive regime. Before the American Revolution, colonists were having trouble with colonial