The Civil War influenced the role of government in the United States because it highlighted how the national government was the sovereign power.ollowing efforts by states to succeed and establish their own system of government the national government of the U.S. asserted is dominance and defeated the southern belligerents, thereby reasserting its dominance over politics and government in the United States following the war. 1  Comments (1). 2  Report.
1. a person or thing that announces or indicates the approach of something; forerunner. 2. (Historical Terms) obsolete a person sent in advance of a royal party or army to obtain lodgings for them.
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