Question

Choices: (Social, Economic, or Political)

a. Include a specific piece of evidence from the "Analyze it" portion of your lesson to support your ranking of your "#1 Cost of the American Civil War."
b. Include a specific piece of evidence from the "Visualize it" portion of your lesson to support your ranking of your "#1 Cost of the American Civil War."
c. Include a specific piece of evidence from the "Experience it" portion of your lesson to support your ranking of your "#1 Cost of the American Civil War."
d. Explain in your own words why you listed this particular cost as the "#1 Cost of the American Civil War.

Social, due to the 625,000 Deaths and the widespread social dislocation in South due to the fighting and then Reconstruction. And was also the death of a whole generation of young men. The numbers that one cost of the civil war were life's that was lost. The civil war was the cause millions life's lost. What people see are half a million people dead.

Answer 1

First the social part: The war caused a huge division among the American citizens, because many families were forced to fight between them during the Civil War, and that's why the relationship between Northern and Southern states have changed.

Talking about the economic part: there existed millions of dollars in damage the both side. Besides, the Union destroyed railroads and plantations.

The last one is political: A huge divide in the American political structure was caused by The Civil War. A new form of government was created by The Confederate States that left US, and they followed their own rules ignoring the Union requests.