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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2014-06-21 04:20 pm

[ SECRET POST #2727 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2727 ⌋

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(Anonymous) 2014-06-22 01:16 am (UTC)(link)
If you could find another civil war where both sides were more or less the same ethnicity, class, and religion, you would probably find more examples. That's the distinct thing with the American Civil War more than the American spirit probably.

Regarding the American Revolution, there's a strong argument that one of the main distinguishing characteristics between the American Revolution and the French and other European revolutions was poverty. IE, poverty was MUCH more entrenched and wretched and dehumanizing in Europe than in America, where the relatively recent settlement and the conditions of relative plenty in terms of land and resources largely ameliorated it. And so poverty took on a much more central stage in European revolutions, leading to increased factionalism and radicalism driven by attempts to eliminate it and by the immediacy of the demands of the poor.