When people think of what event in American history has had the greatest impact on our country, it is without question that the American Revolution. A war to become our own nation, a war to break away from a mother country whose government was out to smuggle the new colonies of all their freedoms. In 1775 the thirteen colonies took to arms against a foe, which was internationally known as a military powerhouse. This war would change America forever. The fighting did not start right away. There were many underlyi

Throughout history, America has been involved in some of the fiercest wars the world has ever seen. The Revolutionary War and Civil War were fought to grant us the freedoms we enjoy today. They helped us win our independence and become the power we are today. Both world wars tested our nationalism and America came though victorious as it always does. War is not something to be proud of but it has shaped our country into the shape it is in today. Without these wars our country might not be standing today. “If war should sweep our commerce from the seas, another generation will restore it. If war exhausts our treasury, future industry will replenish it. If war desiccate and lay waste our fields, under new cultivation they will grow green again and ripen to future harvest. If the walls of yonder Capitol should fall and its decorations be covered by the dust of battle, all these can be rebuilt. But who shall reconstruct the fabric of a demolished government; who shall dwell in the well-proportioned columns of constitutional liberty; who shall frame together the skillful architecture which unites sovereignty with state's rights, individual security with prosperity? (Famous Quotes 1)” A powerful quote from Daniel Webster who I believe is saying that we fight for America because we fight for the liberties and freedoms we refuse to give up, we go to war for the same reason and it is those reasons which have shaped our country into the success it has become today.

Another event in American history is almost regarded in the same breath as the Revolutionary War. It was not a war against an invading country or against a powerful dictator; it was a war between Americans and Americans. The civil war was one of the largest events in American history and was a fight for racial equality as well as keeping the union intact. The Civil War was a result of political struggle and debate between the northern and southern portions of the United Sates. Of course the main issue was that of slavery and it’s moral standing in society. It was officially started on April 12, 1861, almost a hundred years after the largest war in American history. It began after Abraham Lincoln was elected president in 1861. A man who was opposed to slavery and everything it stood for, he was planning on making the abolishment of slavery a top priority. The southern economy depended on slavery as their means of economy. The South was an agricultural based economy and relied on selling their goods on the world market in order to produce an income. They sold cotton, wheat and other goods by exporting them to the rest of the world. They produced mass amounts of goods and by doing so they needed a lot of manual labor. They looked upon African- Americans to do this labor because in the southern eye, blacks were not equal to whites so they should be able to be bought and sold just like farm equipment or animals. When the North got word about how slaves were treated by the release of Harriet Beacher Stowe’s novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, they were outraged. Many northerners viewed slavery as a moral wrong and made it a point to have it abolished. After the election of Lincoln and his anti- slavery politics, the south began to succeed from the rest of the United Sates. It stared with South Carolina in 1861followed soon by Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee and North Carolina. Lincoln would stand for the destruction of his country so instead of letting them succeed he declared war on the Confederate States of America. Thus begging the largest internal war in American history. This war had more implications than any political experience could ever have. The war happened because the issue could not have been solved any other way. No political bill or law could solve this heated issue so war was the only answer. It shaped the country in so many different ways its hard to pick just one definite resolution. The biggest victory of the war was a giant stride in the equality of African-

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