What Is A Civil War? One may believe a civil war is an oxymoron. To most people a civil war is civil if two communities brought their different points to a big meeting and then came to a compromise. Even then one should have doubts of calling that a civil war. The civil war was the one and only war Americans had with themselves. In other wars America fought for their countries freedom or to …showed first 75 words of 819 total…

…showed last 75 words of 819 total…economically, and politically on their views. More directly it was situations such as the inclusion of Missouri that caused the war to begin. Yet in still are the reasons justifiable to call this war civil? The fact that the Civil War was domestic makes it civil. Civilized means there is structure and order. Both sides announced they would attack, they had uniforms and the soldiers had training. These are factors that make a civil war.