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This 3 page paper considers the various factors influencing individual definitions of the Civil War. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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in regard to many issues in US development. The War was fought on the basis of critical differences of opinion of what constituted state rights and what constituted federal
rights. The outcome of the war had both immediate and long-term consequences in terms of our government, society, economy and beliefs. Indeed, the US Civil War had far
reaching influences around the world but the way that it was defined was perhaps the most varied right here at home. At least a few Americans recognized the Civil War
as a testing ground for societal equality. A few others saw it as a means to move forward to achieve at least partial equality. Prior to the war
women, for example, had yet to even begin to achieve partial equality to the white men of the time. Women were valued for their beauty and for their domestic
roles in the family. They did not work outside the home and they played no role in politics. Middle class and wealthy women, particularly married middle class and
wealthy women, however, played a greater role in society as a whole, however, than did the underclass. With the advent of the war, however, women were actually given incentive
to expand their role into the typical domain of males. With their men on the battlefield women had to make up for them back home. Women, of
course, had it relatively good in the Civil War era when compared to another group. That group was the black slaves that fueled Southern economy. Slaves defined the
war on a much more emotional basis than even women. They saw the war as a means of establishing their very humanness. Slaves prior to the war, after
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