Why not celebrate the union ''Civil War'' I think it's as important as thr Independece day since U.S became

Question

Bigger, stronger, and more human after the release of the slaves

Answer 1

Memorial Day was the day originally chosen to honor those that fought and died during the Civil War. However, since then Memorial Day has been expanded to acompass all wars.
However, I think you are right. The Civil War was and perhaps greater than the Revolution in terms of making this a nation. Thus it deserves a national holiday.

Answer 2

The Civil War was considered a Mutany against the United States. I disagree with the becoming more human phrase. Use the Japanease to built the railroads was organized slavery. Slaughter, genocide, and forced relocation of Native Americans was far from humane. Allowing the KKK to form and still exist 140 plus years later is far from humane. If they were a minority group, they would have been labeled public enemy number one and eliminated. Allowing segregation that was seperate and by no means equal. Instead of holding all men accountable to the living document known as the Constitution, you have to create amenments so it applies to minorities and women.

The Civil War should have never had to take place if "Four Score and Seven Years Ago," your forefathers would have had their stuff together. It was not a answer or problem solver, but more of a prelude to a band-aid of amendments to the Constitution.

Answer 3

In addition to ginger1’s answer with some fine points, this was when the Constitution was torn asunder, the Bill of Rights disregarded, and the federal governments ascendancy to full sovereign power over all of the States. All because President Lincoln didn’t want to allow States to secede even though they had every right to do so. This was the beginning of the federal government ascending to imperial power, even though this was way out side of the Founder’s intent.

Why should we celebrate the killing of so many people, the disruption of civilian lives, and the destruction of a culture?

Slavery was on the way out. Lincoln knew it as did every other literate individual in the country. The only question was, how to assimilate the slaves into society.

Nor was the war started by the South. Lincoln was told by South Carolina (as was Buchanan) that trying to supply Fort Sumter was an act of war. General Winfield Scott told Lincoln (as did the commander of Fort Sumter) that it would take 20,000 troops to save the three Forts in Charleston Harbor and that such troops simply did exist. Lincoln knowingly and with forethought goaded South Carolina into protecting their territory. It was a pretext for war that he wanted so that he could raise troops.

Answer 4

No one wanted to celebrate the enormous amount of bloodshed and destruction. The country needed to heal and rebuild. In retrospect it may seem like a celebration would be in order, but it would have been inappropriate due to the cost of a civil war. I doubt many countries celebrate their civil wars, by definition they are very divisive.

At least 618,000 Americans died in the Civil War, and some experts say the toll reached 700,000. The number that is most often quoted is 620,000. At any rate, these casualties exceed the nation's loss in all its other wars, from the Revolution through Vietnam. (http://www.civilwarhome.com/casualties.htm)

Answer 5

The American Civil War was a bloody, divisive, heart-rending war. As just one small example, 1 in 6 men of the state of Mississippi who survived the war were missing one or more limbs. Can you even imagine that? Walking down a street in any town in Mississippi and seeing that many maimed men? And the costs to the widows, orphans, and famlies left destitute! Lincoln had it right when he said in his second inaugaral address:

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.

Answer 6

Becuase the South still holds a grudge

Answer 7

please reread your history book, the civil war was a war of states rights, the slaves were not freed until after the war.we should remember the men men whom were willing to fight for what they believed in, just as we remember all our veterans on veteran's day each year.