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The bloodiest conflict on the nation's soil claimed the lives of 2.5 percent of the nation's population. The war's great generals will be remembered for their heroism and as great tacticians of a new kind of warfare.
The United States waged an unprecedented total war upon its own people. With the money spent on the war, the North could have purchased every person living in slavery in the South, but no one was interested in emancipation in 1861. After the war, the Thirteenth Amendment was passed, banning slavery, but what this and other changes meant to the lives of 4 million freed people remained profoundly uncertain. The Civil War changed America's political, social, and economic landscape for generations to come.
The American Civil War changed the lives of Americans and others in a number of noteworthy ways. The political, social, economic, and technological changes resounded within and beyond America.
Consider how the Civil War altered each of these four types of changes: political, social, economic, and technological.
- What do you believe is the most significant effect in each of the categories? Describe each effect you choose.
- Why do you think these were the most important consequences of the war?
- The response should address the prompts in the discussion topic and contain citations for at least two scholarly sources you utilized.