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A 5 page paper which discusses how the Civil
War utilized weapons and methods of transportation that proved it to be a modern war.
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considered modern were conditions related to the growth of technology. From the railroad to weaponry, new discoveries and newly devised machinery enabled this war to utilize items never before used
in warfare. In the following paper we examine some of these items such as the railroad, rapid fire weaponry, air balloons, and land mines. Modernity in the Civil
War Prior to the Civil War all other wars were fought face to face without the use of machinery and without the use of subversive capabilities as it related to
technology. Guns did not possess any rapid fire mechanisms, transportation was reliant upon individuals usually upon horseback, and killing was often done up close. The most modern tool of weaponry
previously used in warfare was the cannon. But, aside from that battle was generally conducted face to face. With the Civil War, however, things began to change in the world
of industrialization and as such new weaponry and new approaches to warfare were surfacing, making the Civil War the first of the modern wars. In regards to the railroad,
in 1862 President Abraham Lincoln signed the Pacific Railway Act, which authorized "the construction of the first transcontinental railroad. Theodore Judah had the vision to build a railroad across the
Sierra Nevada mountains in California, and then to continue the railroad across the United States. The Central Pacific Railroad was financed by The Big Four: Collis Huntington, Leland Stanford, Charles
Crocker and Mark Hopkins" (Anonymous Railroad History timeline). These are the events, the decisions, the dreams that would influence the construction of the railroads in the United States, as well
as influence the Civil War. 1865 saw the end of the Civil War, but during this time construction was taking place in an effort to be able to ship
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