Question

The Civil War has been called the "Second American Revolution" because ________.

• A. it made the United States totally independent of Great Britain, which, for the first time, accepted its former colony's political and economic independence.
• B. it eliminated the old economic system of slavery and set the country on the road to rapid and unhindered economic growth.
• C. the methods of fighting were directly inherited from the war for independence.
• D. Abraham Lincoln has been called the second George Washington because of his statesmanship and his military leadership.
• E. the problems of race, the fundamental contradiction in American society, were solved.

Answer 1

The correct option is B it eliminated the old economic system of slavery and set the country on the road to rapid and unhindered economic growth.

The Civil War has been called the Second American Revolution because it eliminated the old economic system of slavery and set the country on the road to rapid and unhindered economic growth. The elimination of slavery brought the United States onto the road to world economic leadership because the existence of slavery had been holding it back, according to the historians Charles and Mary Beard. They analyzed the development of the United States from an economic point of view. Full, unhindered capitalism won in the Civil War was the basis of the Second American Revolution.