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A 7 page overview of the many impacts of the US Civil War. This paper traces personal impacts to African Americans and women as well as societal impacts. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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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. Things were very different in the Civil War era. We know that 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.
One of the more interesting roles women took on during the war was as volunteers in the war effort. For the most part even then, however, these roles
were largely domestic. Winslow Homers drawing "The War-Making Havelocks for the Volunteers", for example, depicts women sewing uniforms for the soldiers. After the war the role that women
played in society expanded considerably and they began to work not just for reconstruction of the South but for more rights for women and for various other social causes.
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