Issue #2: The Civil WarThe citizens of this country were originally concerned with banding together against the British to demonstrate a sense of independence from the crown. They wanted to show that this new country could form a government of their own and run it by their own rules and regulations. The assumption was that every member of every colony (eventually, states or provinces), would abide by the same general set of rules, and believe in the same basic principles of freedom and religion. However, a clash of religious beliefs and practices and notions of freedom provided much debate.
For four years the Civil War raged between people of the same to-be-nation due to disagreement about the running of the country. Years before the War, land was fought over furiously and selfishly claimed in the name of those who had recently stumbled upon it and taken it from its native peoples. If America is to be the land of the free, why weren't native peoples free to live on the land they resided on before British citizens landed?
other problems, the Civil War was fought between the United
STATES, they were considered states after 1783, the end of the
revolutionary war.