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Civil War Casualties Civil War Casualties Civil War Casualties Civil War Casualties
Union Confederate Total
Wounded
Killed
One line for each row!

• Write a 4-5 sentence paragraph describing and
  explaining the significance of each of the
  following
• The Thirteenth Amendment
• Lincolns assassination
• Economic consequences of the Civil War

Skip 7 lines between each item!
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Lesson 17.4 The Legacy of the War

• Today we will summarize the costs and
  consequences of the Civil War.

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Vocabulary

• consequence the result of an action or decision
• conspirator someone plotting something, usually
  illegal, with other people
• sympathizer someone who supports or agrees with
  someone else in a dispute

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Check for Understanding

• What are we going to do today?
• What are the consequences for Level A or B
  behavior?
• If you get in trouble at school, are your parents
  going to be your sympathizers?
• Describe a time when you were a conspirator.

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What We Already Know

• In bloody battles such as Antietam and
  Gettysburg, thousands of men died every day.

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What We Already Know

• Lincoln changed the character of the war by
  issuing the Emancipation Proclamation, more to
  prevent the involvement of European nations than
  to end slavery.

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What We Already Know

• For most Americans, Lees surrender to Grant at
  Appomattox meant the end of the Civil War.

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Costs of the War

• After the war, President Lincoln hoped to heal
  the nation and bring North and South together
  again.
• Despite the generous terms of surrender offered
  to Lee, hard feelings remained.

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Costs of the War

• The Civil War was the deadliest war in American
  history.
• In four years of fighting, approximately 620,000
  soldiers died360,000 for the Union and 260,000
  for the Confederacy.

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Costs of the War

• Another 275,000 Union soldiers and 260,000
  Confederate soldiers were wounded.

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A tell B

• Approximately how many Union men were killed in
  the Civil War?
• Be sure to re-state the question in your response!

Approximately 360,000 Union men were killed in
the Civil War.
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B tell A

• Approximately how many Confederates were wounded
  during the Civil War?
• Be sure to re-state the question in your response!

Approximately 260,000 Confederates were wounded
during the Civil War.
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Costs of the War

• Along with the soldiers, many other Americans had
  their lives disrupted by the war.

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Costs of the War

• The war had cost the government of the United
  States more than five times what it had spent in
  its first eighty years.

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22. What were some of the human costs of the
Civil War?

1. Approximately 620,000 military deaths
2. Approximately 535,000 wounded soldiers
3. Approximately 260,000 civilian deaths
4. Disruption of many civilian lives
5. Destruction of billions of dollars of private
   property in the North

Choose ALL that are true!
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The Emancipation Proclamation had freed very few
slaves.

• The Proclamation applied primarily to slaves in
  the Confederacy, and many blacks in the border
  states were still enslaved when the war ended.
• In 1864, President Lincoln called for a
  constitutional amendment to end slavery entirely,
  but it failed to pass Congress.

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The Emancipation Proclamation had freed very few
slaves.

• Lincoln worried that the Supreme Court might
  someday declare the Emancipation Proclamation
  unconstitutional.
• He was also troubled that it did not free all
  slaves in every state.

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The Thirteenth Amendment
Read aloud with me!

• In January 1865, Lincoln urged Congress to try
  again to end slavery and this time, the
  measureknown as the Thirteenth Amendmentpassed.

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The Thirteenth Amendment

• By years end, 27 states, including eight in the
  South, had ratified the amendment. From that
  point on, slavery was banned in the United States.

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23. If Lincoln had already issued the
Emancipation Proclamation, why was the Thirteenth
Amendment necessary?

1. The Emancipation Proclamation applied only to
   slaves in the former Confederacy.
2. The Thirteenth Amendment could free slaves in
   every state and territory.
3. The Emancipation Proclamation could be ruled
   unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
4. All the above
5. A and B only

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Lincolns Assassination

• President Lincoln did not live to see the end of
  slavery.

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Lincolns Assassination

• Five days after Lees surrender, President and
  Mrs. Lincoln went to see a play at Fords Theatre
  in Washington, D.C.

Read aloud with me!
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Lincolns Assassination

• During the play, John Wilkes Booth, a famous
  actor and Confederate sympathizer . . .

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Lincolns Assassination

• . . . crept into Lincolns theater box and shot
  him in the back of the head.

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• Booth then jumped to the stage, breaking his leg
  in the process, but still managed to escape the
  theater.

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Lincolns Assassination
Read aloud with me!

• One of Booths fellow conspirators stabbed
  Secretary of State William Seward, who later
  recovered.

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Lincolns Assassination

• A third man was supposed to assassinate
  Vice-President Johnson, but he failed to carry
  out the attack.

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Lincolns Assassination

• Lincoln was carried to a house across the street
  from the theater.
• The bullet in his brain could not be removed, and
  he died early the next morning.

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Lincolns Assassination

• Several days later, Union troops found Booth
  hiding in a Virginia farmers tobacco shed and
  killed him.

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Lincolns Assassination

• Booths accomplices were captured and either
  hanged or imprisoned.

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A tell B

• What happened to John Wilkes Booth?
• Be sure to re-state the question in your response!

John Wilkes Booth was killed by Union soldiers.
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B tell A

• What happened to Booths fellow conspirators?
• Be sure to re-state the question in your response!

Booths fellow conspirators were all hanged.
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Lincolns Assassination

• The loss of Lincolns vast experience and great
  political skills was a terrible setback for a
  people faced by the challenge of rebuilding their
  nation.
• Lincolns death was an even greater loss for the
  South.

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• Few Northern leaders were as willing to forgive
  the South for secession as Lincoln, and most
  wanted vengeance for the war.
• But in both the North and the South, life would
  never be the same after the Civil War.

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24. Why was Lincolns death a disaster for both
North and South?

1. It gave the Confederacy renewed hope to fight on
   for two more years.
2. It led to diplomatic recognition of the
   Confederacy by Great Britain.
3. Americans would not have his vast experience and
   great political skill while they tried to rebuild
   their nation.
4. It made the North more determined than ever to
   defeat and punish the South.

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Consequences of the War

• People came to see the United States as a single
  nation rather than a collection of states.
• Expansion of the national government and its
  powers
• New paper currency, new income tax, new federal
  banking system

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B tell A

• How did the Civil War affect the national
  government?
• Be sure to re-state the question in your response!

The Civil War caused the national government to
grow in size and power.
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Consequences of the War

• Government funding of railroads and state colleges

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Consequences of the War

• Homestead Act - gave western land to settlers

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Consequences of the War

• Steel, petroleum, food processing, and
  manufacturing industries expanded dramatically.

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A tell B

• How the Civil War affect industry?
• Be sure to re-state the question in your response!

The Civil War caused many industries to expand
dramatically.
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Consequences of the War
Read aloud with me!

• The war brought economic disaster to the South.
• Farms and plantations were destroyed, along with
  40 percent of its livestock and 50 percent of its
  farm machinery.

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Consequences of the War

• Factories were demolished and thousands of miles
  of railroad tracks were torn up.

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Consequences of the War

• Slavery the Southern labor system was gone.

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25. How did the Civil War change the federal
government?

1. The federal government grew smaller and less
   powerful during the war.
2. The federal government lost power to the state
   governments during the war.
3. The federal government grew larger and more
   powerful during the war.
4. The federal government become more sensitive to
   the citizens during the war.

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26. What was the state of the Southern economy
after the war?

1. A great deal of private property, especially
   crops and livestock, was destroyed.
2. The traditional labor system, slavery, was gone.
3. Factories and railroads were destroyed.
4. Agriculture would no longer be important to the
   Southern economy.

Choose the one that is NOT true!
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27. What challenges did the nation face after the
war?

1. How to bring the South back into the Union
   politically
2. How to restore the many farms and plantations in
   the South
3. How to strengthen the North's industrial economy
4. How to make free citizens from the millions of
   former slaves

Choose the one that is NOT true!