Farewell to Arms The Old Man and the Sea For Whom the Bell Tolls American novelist,story writer, playwright,and essayist, Nobel Prize Winner for Literature in 1962,best remembered for The Grapes of Wrath (1939),a novel widely considered to be a 20th-century classic Other Works: Of Mice and Men (1937) The Moon is Down (1942) The Pearl (1947) II.Background The American Civil War (1861-1865)was the greatest war and the only war fought on American soil.3,000.000 people fought-600,000 people died.It brought an end to the constitution of slavery and paved the way for the capitalist development in America The Civil War was caused by a myriad of conflicting pressures,principles, and prejudices,fueled by sectional differences and pride,and set into motion by most unlikely set of political events At the root of all of the problems was the institution of slavery.The American Revolution had been fought to validate the idea that all men were created equal, yet slavery was legal in all of the thirteen colonies throughout the revolutionary period.Although it was largely gone from the northern states by 1787,it was still enshrined in the new Constitution of the United States. At the Constitutional Convention there were arguments over slavery.Representatives of the Northern states claimed that if the Southern slaves were mere property,the they should not be counted toward voting representation in Congress.Southerners, placed in the difficult position of trying to argue,at least in this case,that A Farewell to Arms The Old Man and the Sea For Whom the Bell Tolls American novelist, story writer, playwright, and essayist, Nobel Prize Winner for Literature in 1962, best remembered for The Grapes of Wrath (1939), a novel widely considered to be a 20th-century classic Other Works: Of Mice and Men (1937) The Moon is Down (1942) The Pearl (1947) II. Background The American Civil War (1861—1865) was the greatest war and the only war fought on American soil. 3,000,000 people fought—600,000 people died. It brought an end to the constitution of slavery and paved the way for the capitalist development in America. The Civil War was caused by a myriad of conflicting pressures, principles, and prejudices, fueled by sectional differences and pride, and set into motion by a most unlikely set of political events. At the root of all of the problems was the institution of slavery. The American Revolution had been fought to validate the idea that all men were created equal, yet slavery was legal in all of the thirteen colonies throughout the revolutionary period. Although it was largely gone from the northern states by 1787, it was still enshrined in the new Constitution of the United States. At the Constitutional Convention there were arguments over slavery. Representatives of the Northern states claimed that if the Southern slaves were mere property, then they should not be counted toward voting representation in Congress. Southerners, placed in the difficult position of trying to argue, at least in this case, that