DID THE CIVIL WAR GIVE BIRTH TO THE MODERN UNITED STATES? As we look back into history, we can assuredly state that there were indeed many great and many devastating events that wrote the novel of American history. But there is definitely one turning point in time that has made America what it is today. This was not a world war, but rather a war between brothers and states to preserve the nature of the union and the unity of the nation. This was the Civil War. Although much devastation; both human and financial, the Civil War changed the course of our nation to become the United States of America we live in today. The entire cause of the Civil War had been argued through many views and opinions. Whether it be due to the secessionists wants of the Confederacy or the rebellions to give blacks freedom; what mattered the most is the final purpose of the Unions fight and victory. If the north had not won the war it is almost certain that life for North Americans would be different. It took the addition of the new Constitution, the supreme law of the land, to ensure that southern ideals could coexist, lawfully, with that of the norths. Many of the amendments in this new Constitution serve as milestones in the creation of the United States. There were a certain few directly brought about by the Civil War. The pending question of black slavery was finally answered when the Thirteenth Amendment was passed. The Fourteenth Amendment stated the equality between blacks and whites. The Fifteenth Amendment gave blacks the chance and right to vote. All together these new amendments changed the lives of southern blacks forever. Blacks from that day forward were able to imprint a larger scale of social and cultural activity than they had ever been able to create under slavery. Besides the abolishment of slavery, another outcome of the Civil War that has greatly influenced the world today is the rise of industrialism. With the Unions more industr...
