The Lasting impact of the Civil War

The Civil War is the greatest war that has ever occurred on American soil. Some 600,000 men died fighting for their cause in this war but only one outcome came out of this great battle. At the great cost of fifteen billion dollars and the many lives it had taken, this war would be remembered as the war that abolished slavery. By the end of this long war in 1865, The South had surrendered and President Abraham …

…provided no protection for African Americans, especially from racist groups like the Ku Klux Klan. The South still found ways to keep blacks inferior in their abilities to exercise their rights. The lasting Impact of the Civil War was that it abolished Slavery throughout the entire United States. It freed all slaves but to what extent were these people free? Many rights that a free person should have, would be kept away for several years.