1. Political Changes
-Power of the Federal Gov’t is supreme
-extension of federal powers
-income taxes first used
-citizens drafted into service
-civil liberties suppressed

2. Economic Changes
-growth of war related industries
-Northern industry grew stronger
-southern economy is destroyed
-must be rebuilt

3. Costs of War
-deaths
Historians long focused on 620,000 killed.
New scholarship places the number near 750,000
-1/2 million wounded
-about 20 billion $
5 times the amount spent in 80 years

4. Warfare Changes
-new weapons
rifles
mini ball
trench warfare
grenades
submarine
iron-clad ships
Monitor
Merrimack

5. Lives Change
-13th Amendment
bans slavery
-soldiers return to their homes
-urban population grows
-many move west
-many families destroyed by deaths of soldiers

6. Lincoln’s Assassination
-Lincoln’s Plan
forgiving peace to restore the Union
-At Ford’s Theatre just 5 days after the war’s end
-John Wilkes Booth
-First assassination of a President

7. Lincoln’s Assassination
-Lincoln’s Plan
forgiving peace to restore the Union
-At Ford’s Theatre just 5 days after the war’s end
-John Wilkes Booth
-First assassination of a President

8. Lincoln’s Assassination
-Lincoln’s Plan
forgiving peace to restore the Union
-At Ford’s Theatre just 5 days after the war’s end
-John Wilkes Booth
-First assassination of a President