THE IMMEDIATE EFFECTS OF THE CIVIL WAR https

Short-term Causes • Election of Lincoln • Secession of Southern states • Firing on

POLITICAL EFFECTS • Power of federal gov’t is supreme— states’ don’t have the right

ECONOMIC EFFECTS • Northern Industry grows due to manufacturing and selling war supplies •

Costs of War • Civil War affected nearly every family • Deaths: Union =

WARFARE CHANGES • New weapons: rifles, mini-balls, trench warfare • Grenades • Submarines •

LIVES CHANGE • 13 th amendment: banned slavery everywhere “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude,

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Short-term Causes • Election of Lincoln • Secession of Southern states • Firing on Ft. Sumter Long-term Causes • Conflict over slavery • Economic Differences • Conflict over states’ rights The Civil War 1861 -1865 Immediate Effects • Abolition of slavery • Widening gap between N and S economies • Physical devastation to the South • Reunification of the country • Reconstruction of the South • Industrial Boom • Increased federal authority

POLITICAL EFFECTS • Power of federal gov’t is supreme— states’ don’t have the right to secede • Extension of Federal Power— more involved in daily lives of Americans (RECONSTRUCTION) • Income taxes first used— eventually 16 th amendment wrote into law, paper currency used • Citizens drafted into service— conscription • Civil liberties suppressed— habeas corpus suspended (a law requiring a person under arrest to be brought before a judge or into court, especially to secure the person's release unless lawful grounds are shown for their detention).

ECONOMIC EFFECTS • Northern Industry grows due to manufacturing and selling war supplies • Southern economy is destroyed —source of labor gone, physically devastated, war debt, before war owned 30% of nation’s wealth, after war only 12% • National Bank Act of 1863: new and safer banking system

Costs of War • Civil War affected nearly every family • Deaths: Union = 360, 000 CSA = 260, 000 • ½ million are wounded— maimed veterans become a common sight throughout the country • Money—roughly 3. 3 billion spent (5 times the amount spent in 80 years)

WARFARE CHANGES • New weapons: rifles, mini-balls, trench warfare • Grenades • Submarines • Iron-clad ships: – Monitor (North) vs. Merrimack (South) http: //www. history. com/topics/american-civil-warhistory/videos/civil-war-tech? m=528 e 394 da 93 ae&s=undefined&f=1&free=false http: //www. history. com/topics/american-civil-warhistory/videos/civil-war-biological-warfare

LIVES CHANGE • 13 th amendment: banned slavery everywhere “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States. ” 13 th Amendment to the Constitution • Soldiers return: what now? • Urban population grows • Many begin moving west • Families are destroyed by losses in their families • African Americans, women and children’s role in the war African Americans http: //www. history. com/topics/american-civil-war/black-civil-war-soldiers/videos/massachusetts-54 thregiment? m=528 e 394 da 93 ae&s=undefined&f=1&free=false Women and children: https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=tu 5 CMz 4 ERag