Effects of the Civil War

pay attention to the incremental step by step way in which slavery was abolished.

Political Effects

Federal Gov. Assumed supreme authority

No state (seriously) threatened secession again if disliked policy.

State's rights issue did not disappear, but changed

State or Fed. Right to determine use of local resources

Greatly increased Fed. Power

Before little impact on daily lives

Civil War:

Laws more control individuals

Est. Income tax

Accept paper currency

Draft

NORTH

SOUTH

Northern economic effects

Subsidized Businesses

National Bank Act 1863

System of federally chartered banks

Requirement of loans, bank inspections to make safe for investors

Change in industries

Flourished: firearms, wool, wagon, coal, iron

Declined: cotton

Northern Suppliers grew rich, ability to invest after war

North production drastic growth

Southern Economic Effects

End of Labor system(slavery)

40% of livestock gone

Farm machinery gone

Railroads gone

Thousands of uncultivated acreage of farmland

Drastic economic gap between North and South

Ie. Before war, south had 30% after 12%
Ie. 1860 earned 70% of what North earned, after 1870 earned less than 40%!!!!

Social Effects

360,000 Union and 260,000 Confederates died

275,000 Union and 260,000 Confederates wounded

Reintegration back into society difficult

Soldiers fighting for 4 years = no education, occupation, family life

$20 Billion spent on war = high Fed. Budget for 20+ years

13th Amendment passed in 1865🡪 Slavery banned

In South – eventual development of Jim Crow

Military Effects

Invention of rile and minie ball

More accurate, more rounds, more damage

Mass assaults no longer effective, Horses no longer important

Development of TRENCH WARFARE

Use of hand grenades and land mines

Ironclad ships

Famous Civil War Ironclads – Merrimack and Monitor