Potential Questions on The Civil War

1.) Write your definition of revolution. Then use this definition to argue that the Civil War did or did not produce a revolution in the political, economic, and social life of the United States.

A “revolution” can be described as a transformation from old age to a more modern and progressive one. Without a doubt the Civil War produced revolutionary changes in political, economical, and social life of the people of the US. The original federal banking system was specie based and wasn’t very prevalent or popular. When Congress passed the Legal Tender Act in 1862, the government issued $150 million in government notes known as America’s original “greenbacks”. The new greenbacks along with the National Bank Act of 1863 signified the first steps toward a standardized national currency. The limited extent of Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation did substantiate a “revolution” which showed a tendency to prefer an existing and traditional situation to big change....