Changes North

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Changes North South
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Words to Know
www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/EmanProc.html

• 1. Emancipation Proclamation
• Declared freedom of slaves
• in Confederate Territory
• -Abe Lincoln
• 2. 13th Amendment
• Amendment to the
• U.S. Constitution officially
• outlawing slavery
• everywhere in the U.S.

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Words to Know Continued

• 3. Habeas Corpus
• Right of the accused to be
• set free if not brought
• quickly before a judge.
• 4. Sharecropping
• Replaced the plantation
• (Slave) system.
• Fieldworkers given land
• if they share the crop
• with the Landowner.

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The Civil WarCosts Results

• COSTS
• 500,000 deaths
• Union spent 15 billion
• Plantation owners lost business
• Heavy property damage to the south.

• RESULTS
• Union preserved
• Proved that, states could not leave the Union
• Officially ended slavery (13th Amendment)
• President may suspend constitutional rights
  during times of war
• Ended plantation system
• Started sharecropping system
• Start of new National Bank