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Why Civil War is Second American Revolution?

No doubt that the real meaning of the Civilstriking achievement was the triumph of
War is completely different from the one weindustrial capitalism. The industrial
are used to. Civil War is called the Secondcapitalist, through their political
American Revolution by some great historians.spokesmen, the Republicans, had succeeded in
The term "Second American Revolution" wascapturing the state and using it as an
first used by Charles and Mary Beard aboutinstrument to strengthen their economic
seventy years ago when describing theposition. It was no accident, therefore, that
American Civil War. Only after everything waswhile the war was waged on the field and
settled about the reunion and reconciliation,through Negro emancipation, in Congress'
after the construction of monuments werehalls the victory was made secure by the
completed, after all the veterans werepassage of tariff, banking, public-land,
satisfied, when most of the emotions wererailroad,  and  contract  labor legislation."
dull the Civil War could have been viewed
from another prospective, the logicalSome famous historians and James McPherson
prospective that could easily point out "thatoccasionally talk of Abraham Lincoln's
armed conflict had been only one phase of the"Second American Revolution" (the title of
cataclysm, a transitory phase; that at bottomone of McPherson's books). They are
the so-called Civil War, or the War betweenabsolutely correct to describe Lincoln as a
the States ... was a social war, ending inrevolutionary, however, the explanations they
the unquestioned establishment of a new powerpresent to support this point of view are not
in the government, making vast changes in thefully complete. It is true that Lincoln led a
arrangement of classes, in the accumulationrevolution, but it was an anti-American
and distribution of wealth, in the course ofrevolution against nearly all the founding
industrial development, and in thevalues of the country. It was a revolution
Constitution  inherited  from  the  Fathers."against: free-market capitalism (Lincoln was
a committed mercantilist); the principles of
Over the years the term "Second Americanthe Declaration of Independence; the
Revolution" has been viewed differently byConstitution; the system of states' rights
different parties. The historians of theand federalism that was created by the
Civil War Era always had difficulties withfounders; and the prohibitions against waging
accepting this term. In any case, Civil Warwar on civilians embodied in the
greatly changed the sense of balance ofinternational law of the time as well as the
political power between North and South andcanons of Western Christian civilization.
significantly speeded up the appearance ofLincoln through all of his life never
industrial capitalism in the post-war period.believed in equality of all races. He always
Most historians see the abolishing of slaveryviewed whites as the superior race. Maybe he
in the South as the revolutionary result ofwanted all races to be equal but not in the
the war. Another point of view is from peopleU.S. Lincoln is thought to save the union,
that lived through the war, they saw theirhowever, it was only geographically, he
struggle as revolutionary. People that liveddestroyed it philosophically, and the union
in the South called their revolt a revolutionwas not voluntary anymore. Lincoln
against the tyranny regime of the North.eviscerated constitutional liberties in the
Northerners, on the contrary, viewed theirNorth, which permanently weakened the
conflict as a struggle to keep the union,constitutional protections of liberty for all
which was formed as the result of revolutionAmericans.
against England, together. However, both
sides viewed that war as the continuation ofDespite all of the arguing of prominent
their fight for freedom that started in 1776.historians, the fact continues to be revealed
as the history moves up but at the same time
The prominent historians Beards were veryit sort of steps back away in history. I
precise as to what they called athink, it is an individual right for everyone
"revolution." In 1940 Louis Hacker brieflyto view the Civil War as the Second American
summed up what later became recognized as theRevolution or not. Each generation will
Hacker-Beard Thesis: "The American Civil Warreason and view this event differently,
turned out to be a revolution indeed. But itsaccording to background and political views.



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