How was the South’s situation in
the Civil War similar to the
situation of the Patriots in
the Revolutionary War?

Basically the Americans in the Revolutionary War in the south South believed that the Civil War was very necessary and it was just defense of their rights and liberties.

The revolutionaries and the Confederates had cast themselves as heroes resisting a tyrannical and authoritarian of the government that they felt no longer deserved obeisance.

The Union, like the British of the Revolutionary era, believed that they had to preserve their nation and prevent the new nation from breaking away.

Like Americans in the revolutionary war, the south believed that the civil war was a necessary and just defense of their rights and liberties. The revolutionaries and the confederates cast themselves as heroes resisting a tyrannical and authoritarian government that they felt no longer deserved obeisance.