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LEGACY OF THE WAR

2. Main Idea
The Civil War brought great changes and new challenges to the United States.
Why It Matters Now
The most important change was the liberation of 4 million enslaved persons.

3. What was the social, economic, and political legacy of the Civil War?
SOCIETY
POLITICS
ECONOMY
• death and injury
• cost of war
• government expansion
• disruption of lives
• Northern industrialization
• Thirteenth Amendment
• freeing of slaves
• Southern labor system destroyed

4. • What were some of the human costs of the Civil War?
• What did the Thirteenth Amendment achieve?
• What was the state of the Southern economy after the Civil War?

5. • What were some of the human costs of the Civil War?
Approximately 620,000 casualties and many lives were disrupted.
• What did the Thirteenth Amendment achieve? It banned slavery in the United States
• What was the state of the Southern economy after the Civil War?
Economic disaster; destroyed property; traditional labor system; slavery was abolished

6. Comparing and Contrasting
NORTH
SOUTH
EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
WAR’S IMPACT
NORTHERN VICTORIES IN BATTLE
UNION WINS CIVIL WAR
Many people are enthusiastic; Democrats are angered
Most whites are enraged; blacks are elated
Mild inflation; new possibilities for women
Severe inflation; new possibilities for women
Union confidence rises; Lincoln wins second term
Confederate morale sinks; bid for European recognition is lost
Industrial expansion
Enslaved persons liberated; widespread economic devastation
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7. Review
Civil War in
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8. Lincoln wanted to heal the nation and make it whole again
Civil War was by far the deadliest in American history (still is today)

9. TOTAL DEAD 620,000 Union dead 360,000 Confederate dead 260,000
In addition – 270,000 Union soldiers and 260,000 Confederate soldiers were wounded
Impact

10. Almost 10% of the population served in the war – a total of 3 million men
(if same % of the population served today we would have an army of 25 million men)

11. War had high economic cost for both sides
Impact
War had high economic cost for both sides
Combined the North and South had spent 5 times what the government had spent in the previous 80 years

12. War cost in 1865: $6,000,000,000 6 Billion dollars War cost in 2005:
$7,206,660,841,845
7 Trillion dollars
Today that would be $24,000 per United States citizen
Impact

13. Impact Impact on Southern Economy….
1) Crops had decreased as more farmers were drafted into the army.
2) This caused major food shortage and increased prices for crops.
Furthermore…
3) On southern farms and plantations the land was destroyed from fighting.
Impact

14. Impact Impact on the North
1) Northern farms were important for aiding the war effort because they were still able to feed their people. When southern farms were destroyed they had less food to feed soliders.
Impact

15. Millions of slaves were freed as a result of the war
13th AMENDMENT was passed in 1865 to officially end slavery and make it illegal in the United States

16. Lincoln is assassinated watching a play at Ford’s Theater, 5 days after the surrender

17. LINCOLN’S ASSASSINATION Video Clip

18. GUN USED IN LINCOLN’S ASSASSINATION

19. FORD’S THEATER

20. FORD’S THEATER

21. JOHN WILKES BOOTH assassinated President Lincoln and at the first escaped but was later caught

22. Lincoln was the first United States president to be assassinated
The nation was in a state of shock

23. The size of the government grew after the war
Industry begins to replace agriculture as the nation’s major economic activity

24. South is badly damaged – lost nearly 40% of livestock and 50% of farm machinery
Railroad tracks gone, factories are destroyed

25. Before the war the South had 30% of the nation’s wealth – after the war only 12%

26. The
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The Legacy of the
Civil War Video clip