Throughout history the nations of this world have fought internally amongst themselves at one time or another. The fights, or civil wars, are often the bloodiest wars recorded in a nation's history. Logically so, considering that each person that dies, dies as a citizen of the country in which they are fighting.
Most civil wars have their roots planted in religious or other ethnic disagreements.
So was the case in the English Civil War and in the American Civil War. These two civil wars were similar in the fact that each was fought over how a certain people should be treated or what rights each have. Religious entanglements and economies pushed each of the nations to pursue their own divided ways of life. The outcome of the English Civil War had a far reaching and underlying impact on the development of the New World colonies, later to become the United States. To fully understand the consequences that the English Civil Wars established in the United States, it is necessary to understand the reason and the outcome of the internal strife in England from 1640 to 1660.