Yes. Which is why I said the Civil War was over nothing, i.e. it did not change much.
Hindsight is a luxury modern minds take for granted. When judging history with modern eyes people often forget what it took for them to have the capacity they do. Even if it was over nothing, it changed everything.
In this sentence, what does "American" mean? Surely not natives (so-called Indians)? Then who? African-Americans (really Africans)? The colonist rabble (really Brits)?
Oh, right. Semantics.
Context is a thing. I'm not going to commit much if all I'll be arguing is besides the point...
i.e. it did not change much.
That being said... If you have to add something to American... It's "surely" not that.
And. African-Americans aren't really Africans. Definitively not today and arguably not then either.
Not genetically. Not culturally. Unless you mean the ones Europeans were bringing over fresh off the boats. But lots came before the moment in time we're discussing. Which do you mean? They are different. This is a century after the formation of the Union. The slave trade had long since been outlawed in many countries that once participated. Even officially in the USA. Slaves at the time, though, were subject to selective breeding as well as the introduction of European DNA. Early eugenics that evolved into a movement later borrowed and buried by the Nazis. Evils that occurred and provided context for how the future chose to handle things. (That should bring us full circle.)
Not that I would even try to sum up what you just dismissed in a few paragraphs [The Civil War motives, or that last hidden bit.]. OR was even trying to do more than continue a conversation on them.
I really wasn't that concerned. But now I have to reiterate; What amendment? You seem interested in making my response seem pointless, however, your premise is not right and dismissive. Missing that and all contextual clues, where do you think that leaves me in this?
Sadly still hoping to progress a discussion with you beyond the mundane task of nomenclature. No malice there, but for fuck's sake man. The next response form you is usually how I'm not trying to say anything. Simply not the case.
Causality can be found with context, though.