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Changes After War:

Changes After War:. The Legacy of the Civil War. LINCOLN. The transformation of Abraham Lincoln— What can this tell us about Lincoln’s presidency? About the war?. 1860. 1865. 1858. 1863. Changes After War.

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Changes After War:

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  1. Changes After War: The Legacy of the Civil War

  2. LINCOLN • The transformation of Abraham Lincoln— • What can this tell us about Lincoln’s presidency? About the war? 1860 1865 1858 1863

  3. Changes After War “It does not seem to me as if I were living in the country in which I was born.” – George Ticknor, 1869 • The Civil War’s end brought about tremendous political, economic, technological, and social change in the United States.

  4. POLITICAL 1) Federal government assumes supreme national authority • Southern states had previously used threat of secession • No state ever used this threat again

  5. 2) State’s rights issue never went away– just took a different direction • Should the state or national government determine how to use local resources? • What is left up to the states?

  6. 3) Increased the power of the federal government • Federal government used to have little impact on daily lives; mostly left up to local governments • Passed laws that gave it more control over citizens • Taxing private incomes • Required to accept new paper currency • Tore men from families to fight the war-- the draft After the war, US citizens could no longer assume that the national government in D.C. was too far away to bother them.

  7. SUMMARIZE • In 1-2 sentences, how would you summarize the political changes made after the Civil War? • How/why would these changes prove to be significant in reshaping the nation?

  8. ECONOMIC 1) National Bank Act of 1863 • Set up a system of federally chartered banks • Set up rules for loans • Banks must be inspected • Banking system much safer for investors

  9. 2) Industry—way up or way down • Cotton textile industry showed a 74% decline • War-related industries grew rapidly

  10. 3) Opportunities for entrepreneurs • Many government suppliers grew rich and had money to invest in their own businesses after the war

  11. 4) Northern economy booms, Southern economy devastated • Marked the end of slavery as a labor system • Wiped out livestock • Destroyed farm machinery and railroads • Uncultivated farmland becomes weeds

  12. 5) Economic gap widened drastically • Southern states now hold merely 12% of nation’s wealth. • Before the war, they held 30% • Southerners earn less than 40% than Northerners • Before the war, Southerners earn 70% on average of what Northerners do

  13. 6) Cost of War • Spent $3.3 billion on war • More than twice what the government had spent in the last 80 years. • Costs did not stop when war ended- • Interest payments on war debts • Veteran’s pensions- two pensions are still being paid to Civil War veterans’ children147 years after the conflict ended… • Accounted for 2/3 federal budget for twenty years

  14. SUMMARIZE • In 1-2 sentences, how would you summarize the economic changes made after the Civil War? • How/why would these changes prove to be significant in reshaping the nation?

  15. SOCIAL 1) Human costs are staggering • 360,000 Union and 260,000 Confederates dead • 275,000 Union and 260,000 Confederates wounded • One soldier killed: Four slaves freed • Armless and legless veterans everywhere • Disrupted education, careers, families

  16. 2) Thirteenth Amendment “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States.” • Lincoln needs to decide what to do about the slaves in the border states • Needs amendment abolishing slavery altogether • By the end of 1865, 27 of 36 states had ratified the amendment, including 8 Southern states.

  17. 3) Veterans Return • Veterans returned to their small towns and farms • Many moved to the burgeoning cities in search of opportunity or went west to build railroads/search for gold

  18. SUMMARIZE • In 1-2 sentences, how would you summarize the social changes made after the Civil War? • How/why would these changes prove to be significant in reshaping the nation?

  19. MILITARY 1) Modern military technology • Rifle and minie ball • Rifle- more accurate and faster to load • Minie ball- soft lead bullet more destructive, higher casualty rate • Grenades and land mines • Ironclad ships • Withstand cannon fire, resist burning • End of wooden warships

  20. 2) Strategy- mass assaults • Pickett’s Charge proves mass assaults are not effective • Horses became much less important • Longer range accuracy, no need for cavalry charge

  21. 3) Strategy- trench warfare • Provides protection from deadly new rifle • Used in WW1

  22. 4) Strategy- total war • Used in WW1 and WW2

  23. SUMMARIZE • In 1-2 sentences, how would you summarize the military changes made after the Civil War? • How/why would these changes prove to be significant in reshaping the nation?

  24. READING • Questions: ANSWER ON A SEPARATE SHEET OF PAPER! • In what ways are the North and South still split today? • Should the South have the right to commemorate the Civil War in these controversial ways? Why or why not? • In what way is the Civil War still being “fought”?

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