CIVIL WAR FACTS

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CIVIL WAR FACTS

• 3,000,000 People fought in the war.
• In two days at Shiloh, more americans fell than
  in all the previous wars combined.
• At the Battle of Antietam, there were 23,000
  casualties, the bloodiest single day of the civil
  war.
• At Cold Harbor, VA 7,000 people died or were
  wounded in 20 minutes.
• However, disease was the chief killer of the war.
  It took 2 men to every 1 killed of battle
  wounds.

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CHAPTER 13SECTION 1

• PRESIDENTIAL RECONSTRUCTION

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EFFECTS OF THE WAR

• PHYSICAL TOLL
• 9,000 Miles of railroad destroyed
• Farm land, farm buildings, and farm machinery
  were devoured.
• 1/3 of all livestock killed
• Factories, ports, and cities lay smoldering.
• Value of southern land decreased 70

• HUMAN TOLL
• North lost 364,000 men
• South lost 260,000 men (1/5 of the adult white
  male population
• Children were orphaned and brides were widowed

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Postwar south

• Made up of 3 major groups of people who faced
  pressing issues
• Black Southerners
• 4 million newly freed people started their new
  lives with nothing!!!
• Attempted to find loved ones sold to someone
  else.
• Many found themselves homeless, jobless, hungry.
• Plantation Owners
• Lost slave labor worth about 3 BILLION
• Poor White Southerners
• Now have to compete with newly freedmen.

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Punish or Pardon?

• Forgive and forget
• or
• Make em Pay!!

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Lincolns Reconstruction Plan

• Pardon any confederate who would take an oath of
  allegiance.
• Denied pardons to Confederate military and
  government officials who had killed African
  American war prisoners.
• Permitted each state to create a new state
  constitution only after 10 of the voters in the
  state swore allegiance to the Union.
• Lincoln did not readmit states since in his
  mind, their secession had not been constitutional.

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Lincoln Assassinated
Crook, do you know I believe there are men who
want to take my life? And I have no doubt they
will do it...I know no one could do it and escape
alive. But if it is to be done, it is impossible
to prevent it. SLIDE SHOW
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Andrew Johnson Takes over

• Johnsons reconstruction plan.
• Pardoned southerners who swore allegiance to the
  Union
• Permitted each state to hold a constitutional
  convention (Without Lincolns 10 requirement).
• States were to void secession, abolish slavery,
  and repudiate the confederate debt.
• States could than hold elections and rejoin the
  union.

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Andrew Johnson

• In his lifetime Andrew Johnson, the son of a
  tailor, occupied every major non-judicial elected
  office in the American political system - city
  councilman, mayor, state representative, state
  senator, Governor, Representative, Senator,
  Vice-President, and President. He is the only
  person to have held all of those positions.