Impact of the Civil War: Society, Economy, and Politics

1. War Affects Society The Civil War Caused Social, Economic, and Political changes in the North and South

2. Key Vocabulary Copperhead Conscription Bounty Income Tax Greenback Key People Key Vocabulary and Key People

3. Drastic Measures • As the South grew tired of war, riots and desertion took a toll on the confederate army • While the South Disagreed on how to run the war, the North saw Copperheads begin to protest for peace • Lincoln would Have any copperhead arrested and would suspend the writ of Habeas Corpus to preserve Unity

4. Rough Draft • With soldiers needed both sides instituted conscription for men aged 18-45, but the rich planters in the south were often exempt • In the North, the Union offered $300 Bounty to join the Army limiting the use of the draft • The issues of draft and race led to riots in New York seeing 100 people killed

5. NORTH Inflation of Prices Boost in production and Industry Income tax on Earnings A new Union Currency SOUTH Food Shortages 9000% Inflation Selling of Cotton, illegally, to the North Economic Effects

6. Resistance is NOT futile • Slaves began to resist slavery through slow work, stoppages, and sabotage • Slaves would try to overthrow their overseers or run away to freedom in the North • By the end of the war over 500,000 slaves had fled to the North

7. Girl Power • As the war went on women began to take rolls in the farms and factories • Women began to serve as nurses in the war or in jobs to help the soldiers • Women such as Harriet Tubman and Belle Boyd would work as spies to help their soldiers in the North and South

8. Jail Birds • War Prisons became some of the worst places a soldier could end up • The Prison in Elmira New York would lead to the Death of over 3000 soldiers captured in the war • The Prison at Andersonville would become the worst war prison in the civil war seeing as many as 100 men per day die • Over 50,000 men would die in war camps but the number dying on the battle field would far surpass those in war prisons

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