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

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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

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Casualties of War
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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

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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

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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?

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Where to go from here?

• Reconstruction Period
• 1865-1877