What are the differences between the civil war and the Revolutionary War?

Answer 1

• While the Civil War was fought between states of the same country, the Revolutionary War was technically fought between two separate countries: the colonies declared independence from Great Britain one year into their conflict, while the South never issued an official Declaration of Independence.
• Technology was more advanced in the Civil War than the Revolutionary War, making the killing of hostile soldiers easier, which in turn ensured a huge difference in casualties: less than 100,000 soldiers died on the battlefield during the Revolution, while 617,000 soldiers died in battle during the Civil War.
• Tactics in the Civil War and the Revolutionary War were different: in the Revolutionary War both armies would march onto the battlefield and fire at one another from a short distance away, exchanging volleys until one side ran out of soldiers or ammunition. In the Civil War, tactics were more flexible depending on the battlefield and on the size of the opposing force.
• During the Revolutionary War outside forces became involved in the war: the British deployed German mercenaries in battles against the Americans, while the French and the Spanish fought on the side of the Americans after the Americans won the Battle of Saratoga in 1777. No other forces ever became involved in the war between the North and the South: all the troops deployed in the war were American citizens.
• During the Civil War ironclads were deployed, while wooden warships were used throughout the Revolutionary War.

Answer 2

The American Revolution was when the original 13 colonies became the independent United States of America, and the Civil war was when the noth part of the U.S. was fighting the south part of the U.S.

Answer 3

They were the same type of war. They were both wars where one group of people was fighting for their rights and against taxation without representation.

Neither one was technically a "civil war" where two groups fight to control one government. A separate country was desired in both cases.

The main differences, apart from all of the technological advances, were the oponents.

Answer 4

The American Revolution and the American Civil War were very similar in that in each, an underfunded, undermanned and undergunned underdog sought independence from what they felt was an oppressive regime.

There will be people who will claim the Civil War was fought over slavery, but that was just one of the issues. Lincoln himself said that if he could restore the Union without freeing a single slave, he would do it.

Prior to the American Revolution, the American colonies were having difficulties with the colonial overlords in London. The colonies were not allowed to import goods except through Great Britain, and at the price (and tax level) Great Britain dictated. Import goods could have been available at far cheaper prices had the colonists been allowed to import from other countries. Ultimately, the colonists grew so tired of being legally robbed of their wealth by Great Britain, that they took action to throw off the yoke of oppression. But, don't kid yourself - the rebel leaders of the colonies were wealthy men. It always takes wealth and men of wealth to fund a revolution. Poverty never causes a revolution and the poverty-stricken never revolt.

Fast forward 85 years. Prior to the Civil War, the southern states were having difficulties with the Treasury Department and bureaucrats in Washington. The southern states were allowed to import goods from foreign countries, but the tariffs on those goods (set by the federal government) made it cost-prohibitive to do so. So the southern states were forced to buy those same goods from the northern states, and since the federal government placed no onerous tariffs on the import of good that the southern states could produce (cotton, tobacco, etc.) the flow of capital was one way - out of the southern states and into the northern states. Ultimately, the southern states grew so tired of being legally robbed of their wealth by the federal government and the northern industrialists, that they took action to throw off the yoke of oppression.

The primary difference between the two is that no other nations came to the aid of the Confederacy as France did with the colonies. As such, the Confederacy lost. Incidentally, had the southern states delayed their secessions by as little as ten years, the outcome may have been quite different, as iron ore deposits were developed in Alabama, and coal mines were developed in Mississippi (the coal was not as good as in Pennsylvania, but it was plentiful). The creation of industry based on these two major Natural Resources would have dramatically changed the Confederacy's ability to wage defensive war.

Answer 5

Civil is when two clans or groups from the same city fight, revolutionary is when the whole city goes against the government.

Answer 6

The Civil War was the north half of America and the south half of American fighting against each other. The Revolutionary War was the colonists fighting against the British.

Answer 7

The revolutionary war was fighting for freedom against the British, but the civil war was brother against brother. It was an internal war between states.