1. THE IMMEDIATE EFFECTS OF THE CIVIL WAR

2. The Civil War 1861-1865 Short-term Causes Immediate Effects
Election of Lincoln
Secession of Southern states
Firing on Ft. Sumter
Long-term Causes
Conflict over slavery
Economic Differences
Conflict over states’ rights
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
The Civil War

3. 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 16th 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).

4. 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

5. 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)

6. WARFARE CHANGES New weapons: rifles, mini-balls, trench warfare
Grenades
Submarines
Iron-clad ships:
Monitor (North)
vs. Merrimack (South)

7. LIVES CHANGE
13th 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.” 13th 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
Women and children: