Racial Equality In The Civil War

The Revolutionary War was fought with the combined effort of the original thirteen colonies to gain their independence from the tyrannical grasp of the English Monarchy. When they gained their independence they fought even more for expansion, with the nation stretching from Maryland to Florida, there was bound to be differences in each state. Many of the differences were easy to ignore, except for the souths view of slavery . The difference between the opinion of racial equality caused such a great divide, that it leads to the Civil War. The brutal war lead to the deaths of many important generals and hundreds of thousands of soldiers from both sides, lost their lives. The north and the south were very different socially, politically and economically
Each side raised their children to have the same racial views as them, if you grew up with parents who owned slaves, you were most likely going to see them as less of a citizen then if you grew up in the north, where there were none. In the South, the children typically recived less education then the children in the North. In the North there were schools and churches everywhere so many kids were expected and able to attend, in the south school was mainly for the kids whos parents owned plantations. However they had a common ground: the roles of a women. Before the civil war all women stayed home to clean, cook and take care of the kids; women "depended on their husband". However, during the Civil War no matter what side you were on, women took more important roles like nurses, a famous example is Florence Nightingale, a nurse during the Crimean War who got other women to work with her to keep the Union soldiers healthy. Another big role was being a spy, no matter which side you were spying for this was an easy job because women were rarely even
The reason the south was fighting for slavery flowed off of what they were dependent on; agriculture, the crops were picked by the slaves. The north was more industrialized but because it was the 1800s it was not completly automatic so human labor was still required, but not forced. Northern busniesses were blossoming with the introduction of railroads and canals, the south used steam powered ships to get their goods around because of the fewer number of railroads and minimal canals. Before succession they obviusly worked together and used eachothers resources, that stopped during the civil war. The north produced shoes but that became scarce for the south during the civil war but the south just didnt have the resources to resupply themselves. The South had the most cotton out of the the two because of all of the avalible farm land, before the civil war textiles were begining to be manufactured in northern factories but they saw a downfall because of the low supply of cotton they now had. Although they both needed eachother, that was not enough to reunite the two fueding