Was the American Civil War a revolution?

By any reasonable definition (there are some unreasonable ones in the other answers) the American Civil War was an attempt at a revolution. read more

The American Revolution was, in a sense, a type of civil war, as the American colonists were considered British Citizens who seceded from their own country. The American Civil War was similar, in that the people of the South (the confederate States) seceded from their own country to the north (the Union). read more

The American Civil War, the English Civil War, and the Spanish Civil War were different conflicts, taking place amid contrasting social, political, and cultural circumstances. More substantively, though, the difficulties of comparing the American Revolution to these civil wars relates to how we conceptualize the constitutional arrangement of the eighteenth-century British Empire. read more

Racism still poisons American life. Again and again, in the 150 years since the Civil War, mass struggle has been necessary to drive back the boundaries of bigotry, police brutality, and racial injustice. The American Civil War was one giant revolutionary step in that struggle. read more