What is the importance of the civil war?

Answer 1

It marked the time when the US actually thought about freedom and what it meant. Many people before the Civil War didn't care about slavery, were against slavery or they thought it was okay (Mitch Hedberg joke, sorry). After the Reconstruction the US went back to its regular ways by passing the Jim Crow laws. They went back to the dark ages and stayed there until the Civil Rights movement began in the 1950s, almost 100 years after slavery was abolished. So the answer to your question would be it marked the time when the US opened their eyes for a moment and helped a race that was not their own out of slavery and pain. Smartest 6th grader in the World

Answer 2

The importance of the civil war was that without it we would still have slavery, well anyways the important facts were that over 900,000 men were killed or wounded and that the Confederate General E. Lee surrendered to Uslyess S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, and that the 13th Amendment abolished slavery.


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Answer 3

The US Civil War was the one of the two most significant events in US History. It was also America's greatest failure. The inability to find a compromise that would have saved over 620,000 deaths was inexcusable.

Answer 4

The US Civil War was extremely important. The Union forces with US President Lincoln as Commander in Chief had the task of keeping the US united as one nation. If the Union gave up on trying to end the rebellion of the Confederate states, the US would no longer be the nation it was in 1860. The Union would have on its southern border a potentially dangerous enemy. All other issues such as slavery would be settled once the South gave up its war for independence.

Answer 5

it freed slaves!