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The consequences of the Civil War and the abolishment of the slavery spread far beyond of east coast of the United States and actually had an effect on the world globally according to The World the Civil War Made essays. While Americans fought a war for freedom and independence from Great Britain in 1776, it was a war that also expanded aspects of what it meant to be free individuals in general. The Civil War was refining of this concept of freedom on the grander scale. While some of the nation’s founders believed that war of independence should have included all people, slave and free people, they understood that this concept was not held by many of those in the southern states, and they believed that if they tried to force their particular view of freedom, which would include slaves on those in the south they would not have gotten the military support to fight against the British that they desperately needed, leaving the country in a status quo situation which they found unacceptable—better to get some of what they wanted than nothing.
According to Zimmerman, Ch.12, Marx saw the American Civil War as a new type of revolutionary experience that emanated from the workers at the lowest level of political power in an attempt to gain political influence. This view of the more subtle influences on the political spectrum is echoed in Beyond the Founders, which examines the seemingly powerless non-citizens, including white women and people of color, explaining how they did actually did hold a number of keys to change in the political system through entrepreneurial expression and social life. The World the Civil War Made has shifted the focus on the history of the Civil War era from the influence of the federal and state governance to the entities on the ground, and opened up the prospects of a broader sense of understanding of the nation and its formation after the Civil War. The most fascinating approach seems to me that author shown a light into the perspective on the idea that there had previously not been a concept of “rights” for all individuals (p. 28). This was a movement form the ground up that reflected the common thought that if freedom was valuable for some, it should be common for all people—a bottom up concept the Marx elaborated on as an integral part of his doctrine. The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments were thus influenced by African American, who according to the author, had influence in the “central roles in the major events of the time rather than appearing as inert subjects to whom federal lawmakers gave freedom and rights” (p.27) and that the fact that they were instrumental in procuring their right to be free was not just a construct of the white politicians or white majority at that time.