Civil War

Rafaella Schivartche
Block 8
October 20th, 2002

The Civil War

Conflicts usually happen between nations, but sometimes many problems inside your own country result in many different points of view that in turn cause a war inside the country. A more technical word for this type of war is civil war. Above all the civil wars comes the American Civil War with a capital C and a capital W. This was not any war, but one that finally reunited the North and the South. “Many historians consider the Civil War the most important event in the history of the U.S. It was responsible for the worst death and destruction in the country’s history. The war temporarily resolved a long and bitter debate over the balance of power between state and federal governments, ended more than two hundred years of slavery, destroyed the Confederacy, and fostered lasting suspicion and misunderstanding between the North and the South.” (Streissguth, 2001) Behind of every conflict are the causes. “Histori...