How did the Civil War impact the lives of Americans? Discuss the lives of soldiers, women, slaves, and free blacks. Why did the Union adopt the strategy of “total war”? Do you think that the use of total was was appropriate or ethical, in this case?
the Civil War had a big impact on the American people. One impact is that it split families. There were families who had members fighting on both sides of the war. Some of these divided families faced the death of family members from the fighting on both sides of the war.
