Hint: make suer you give at lease 4 reasonxs for your opinion and at least 1 reason taht would support the opposite of your opinion.
2007-05-30 03:58:56 · 6 answers · asked by Jmeシ 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
If we answer your question, with at LEAST four reasons - and at least one reason that supports the opposite of our opinion - will you tell us your own four reasons and one reason that goes against your opinion?
2007-05-30 04:14:13 · answer #1 · answered by WMD 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Was the American Civil War worth fight for? Good question (sorry I assume you do mean the American one not the British one.) Yes I do believe that the war was worth it. Here are my reasons.
1. The war pushed the society of the nation toward abolishing slavery. If the war was not fought our society would be complete different today.
2. The war highlighted the benefits of a higher eduated military class e.g. The U.S. Military Academy (West Point) if the war did not happen, the arm forces would not be what it is today.
3. The war disolved the sectionalism of "I am a Viriginaian or New Jerseyian" established "I am an American." Without this changed we not have be able to be a strong society that shows strength through our united beliefs of freedom and equality.
4. The war showed the durabilty of the American Presidendency through Lincoln's example and his belief of a united nation.
2007-05-30 04:32:26 · answer #2 · answered by Timothy L 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm not going to do your entire homework assignment for you, but I will give you ONE good reason, besides the obvious one.
If the war had not been fought, what we now know as the USA would not exist today. The country would just be a smattering of small time independent states with no collective power economically or militarily. After 4 years, some of the southern states were threatening to secede from the Confederacy. Imagine what would happen if each state decided to secede from the country everytime it didn't get its own way. We would look like the former SSRs of eastern Europe.
2007-05-30 04:26:39 · answer #3 · answered by latest_greatest 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
No, slavery would have lasted maybe another 30 years, tops, and then would have gone away as a) economically disfunctional and b) out of tune with international opinion. The result would have been emancipation without 600,000 dead and a legacy of bitterness from war.
2007-05-30 05:10:16 · answer #4 · answered by CanProf 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If the war had not been fought, I would be picking cotton and be unable to walk around without a pass. As far as I am concerned, there can be no opposite justification. Man was not made to be enslaved. And that's all I got to say about that!
2007-05-30 04:11:09 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
Are we at school?
2007-05-30 04:02:54 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋