Civil War Dbq

The war at home became controversial because of the huge dive of supporters of the war and non-supporters of the war. The people opposed to the war tended to be middle class working people along with the working class women, and African Americans with grade school education and low paying jobs. The people opposed to war were making mostly moral arguments. They stated that the missions being conducted were forcing people to relocate just like the U.S. did to Native Americans in the mid to late 1800s. One of the strongest arguments that the antiwar supporters had was that the war was causing more damage than living under communist rule did. This is significant because the middle class was growing in strength. That means that LBJ was going against what most citizens wanted. …show more content…
LBJ thought the “domino theory” would happen if the U.S. didn’t step in. People of the United States including LBJ followed the principle that communism was seen as evil and needed to be stopped and contained. People believed that the war was destroying America’s democracy. It was argued that the war violated the U.S. democratic values such as “going to war without a formal declaration of war from congress, presidential secrets and lies, FBI surveillance of peace protesters, and unjust draft deferments for middle- and upper-class men who could afford to go to college” (Keene 796). The significance is that some citizens got to get out of the draft by enrolling in college. There was a large number of people who couldn’t afford higher education and where then forced into the draft and active