Slavery: The Most Important Events Of The American Civil War

The American Civil War was the most deadly and arguably the most important event in the nation's history. It was a critical point in history. It was a time that everything and everyone evolved. Sectional tensions embedded in the Constitution erupted into a brutal war that cost over 600,000 American lives and separated a nation in two. Slavery was the root cause of the conflict, and while the Thirteenth Amendment caused the war's end, racial slams continued to dominate American politics and society well into the future. Following the war, slavery was banned, women finally got that the chance to participate in the workforce, and Americans had a new sense of being a part of a single nation instead of a nation split with their own institutions

President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of the civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." Without it, slavery would have collapsed the Republic, even with the defeat of the Confederacy. It helped free over four million African Americans. The Emancipation Proclamation paved the way of total abolition of slavery in the United

The Union victory in the Civil war helped banish slavery, the plantation system and, the Old South. The Union’s triumph, along with Industrial Capitalism, was poised to lift America into an age of unprecedented prosperity. Emancipation had destroyed the South’s slave-based agrarian economy. The South was forced to change their ways and evolve the way the North had done in years previous. They upgraded to a more technological way of life while still keeping its agricultural roots. This effect of the Civil War would later lead to creation of railroads and the decade known as the roaring