What are some consequences of the Civil War that we are still living with today?

Question

I'll take on all sides of this cube! Bring em' on!

Answer 1

Well medicine, especially war medicine, has vastly improved because of the war. I mean with some half a million or so deaths and several hundred thousand more injuries, doctors were trying to produce better medication to help people's wounds and anesthesia was developed due to the war. Second the war gave greater control to the federal governmen, which had gaine to power to decree who could have basic rights and who couldn't, also led to several amendments in favor of minorities.

Answer 2

The present Federal government that we have is a product of that Civil War. Since the civil war the federal government has grown in size, power, and influence. This has reduced the ability power and influence of the states. Present society always seeks for the government to do something about any problem. The jurisdiction of the states is become increasingly insignificant. What this does is increase the distance one has between the government yet decrease the distance the federal government has with the individual. It takes longer to get a bill through the federal government than it does the state government and it cost a lot more money to do so, and yet the federal governments influence upon are daily lives is ever more increasing and less and less humane. At the time of the civil war the federal government was to weak, we were still considered a back water because the states had more power than the federal government. The other great change came when in the early 1900 the powerful Trust in particular the Rail Road Trust were far mor epowerful the the states and the federal government. T. Rex attempted to reign in this power first by volunntary action of the trust then by federal power. The power of the federal government increased then and found its rocket sled under FDR.
The other is that after the civil war we did not complete the emanciptaion with full freedom to former slaves, the desire to bring the rebel states back into the fold was greater than the desire to honor the scarifice of those that died for freedom.

Answer 3

Before the war the United States was a collection of separate "nation states".. The only reason for the "union" was to negotiate international agreements and to provide a common defense.

After the war, as now, the Federal government became the sole ruling force...Now it governs everything......

The first Illegal income tax was brought into play to pay for the war....We still have it...

Warfare became a technological arena.....Perhaps no war in history relied more-so of battlefield tech...
The first sinking of a ship by a submarine (C.S.S. Hunley)....First repeating rifles and "machine guns"....First "ironclad" warships.....The list gos on...

Some of the first uses of propaganda....The emancimation proclamation was just that....It freed no one...Read it, it did not free any slaves on Northern soil...
Four of the "Union" states (Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, and Delaware) were slave states. A fifth Union slave state, West Virginia, was admitted into the Union in 1863 with the proviso that slavery be phased out by the early 1880's. This shows that ending slavery was not initially the major item on the agenda for the North that it later became towards the end of the War.

http://www.geocities.com/billkincaid/sla...

The emancipation proclamation was a propaganda weapon designed to keep England out of the conflict....Nothing more and it did not free anyone standing on Union soil....England had just eliminated slavery and the slave trade so by bringing the issue of slavery into the "civil" war the North brought up an issue that England could not get tied up with again. So it forced England to back away from forming alliances with the CSA.
It also set up the premise that the Union could take any private property (Under the existing law that is what a slave was.) when it invaded Southern soil without legal recourse..

Sound just like our present government!!!!
Except now they use illegal tactics to steal private property every day under the guise of the "drug war"...

Answer 4

loss of personal freedom because the Federal Government has taken over decision making for the majority of citizens. when in actuality the government which can benefit the citizens the most is the government closest to the people, because they understand their needs better.

taxes. there were taxes imposed upon the citizens which were imposed in order to pay for the war.

hard feelings between the Northern States and Southern States because the stupid Politicians decided to " punish " the Southern States instead of allowing them back into the Union as friends.

Answer 5

The lost ideal of States Rights.

Answer 6

A large government that believes that it can run our life better than we can and we need to rely soully on them rather than be self-sufficient.