I'm late but oh well. The civil war brought forth unity in America and we were less separated by North and South. It made it so that Americans are not just one color of skin, Americans can be whatever color they'd like to be. Being American did not have to mean entitlement to treating other people poorly because it was always done that way. It showed that over time, as a nation, we could change together for the greater good.
The Civil war? oh well thats easy. It gained us more freedom and rights, leading to the creations of advanced technology, which changed America forever, and yet still improves today!
Indentured servants are people who were in england that didn't have the money to pay for the ship ride over to the colonies. So, these people agreed to work for a weathly person (for free) for a set amount of time in exchange for the money to buy the boat ticket.
In 1854, the Missouri Compromise was repealed by the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Three years later the Missouri Compromise was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott decision, which ruled that Congress did not have the authority to prohibit slavery in the territories.
