Some similarities between the US Bill of Rights and the English Bill of Rights are that both were written to amend constitutions and that both were written after a revolution against a monarch. A difference between them is that the US Bill of Rights focuses only on civil liberties while the English Bill of Rights also addresses governmental matters.
The South relied heavily on steamboats for transportation of supplies and troops. They absolutely needed the Mississippi River to be effective in anyway during the war. The North also used it for transporting, but they had railroads. They were mostly concerned with keeping the South from using it.
These were some of the first ever WRITTEN laws, and most likely inspired many other civilizations to have a code of laws like this one. Crime was reduced, as some punishment for the crimes tended to be brutal, and everyone benefited as a result of Hammurabi's Code.