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Title: Effects of the Civil War


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Effects of the Civil War
  • An Organizational Revolution
  • Modern bureaucratic state emerges (lessons of
    army organizationfollow ordersimpersonal govt)
  • Individualism gives way to organized, cooperative
    activity (lessons of total war)
  • Catalyst for transformation of American society
    in the late nineteenth century

2
Overall Outcomes of the War
  • 618,000 troops dead
  • Bereaved women seek non-domestic roles
  • Four million African Americans free, not equal
  • Industrial workers face wartime inflation

3
Casualties of War
4
Political
  • Federal Supremacy over States Rights
  • One nation, indivisible No more threats of
    secession
  • Power of national government continues to
    increase
  • Power of the President as Commander in Chief
    increases significantly

5
Economic
  • North
  • Prosperity, industry boomed
  • West
  • Agricultural products in demand
  • The Homestead Act (1862) 160 acres free if
    settled for 5 years
  • South
  • Devastated most of the war was fought in the
    South
  • Loss of slave labor

6
Social
  • Heavy casualties 620,000 total
  • Individual/Family lossgriefhardships
  • Bitterness toward their former enemy
  • Shermans March to the Sea!
  • Issues of civil rights and civil liberties remain
  • Citizenship for former slaves? Equality?

7
Where to go from here?
  • Reconstruction Period
  • 1865-1877
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