Richard Mark Endaya
Period 6
The Rise of American Civilization
It is historians Charles and Mary Beard’s thesis that the American Civil War was the Second American Revolution and that there was an unstoppable, inevitable conflict between the growing industrial North and the agricultural South.
Civil War was called the Second American Revolution by some great historians. The Civil War could have been viewed from another prospective that the so-called Civil War, was a social war, ending in the unquestioned establishment of a new power in the government, making vast changes in the accumulation and distribution of wealth, in the course of industrial development, and in the Constitution. Over the years the term "Second American Revolution" has been viewed differently by different parties. In any case, Civil War greatly changed the sense of balance of political power between North and South and significantly speeded up the appearance of industrial capitalism in the post-war period. The abolishing of slavery in the South was seen as the revolutionary result of the war. Another point of view is from people that lived through the war, they saw their struggle as revolutionary. People that lived in the South called their revolt a revolution against the tyranny regime of the North. Northerners viewed their conflict as a struggle to keep the union. Both sides viewed that war as the continuation of their fight for freedom that started in 1776.
