Life During the Civil War

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Life During the Civil War
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The Lives of Soldiers

• Which side was suffering during the War?
• Both
• What are some reasons for this?
• High death tolls
• Medical facilities were overcrowded
• Starvation

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Women and the War

• What roles did women perform during the War?
• Teachers
• Office Workers
• Salesclerks
• Government Workers
• Farm Managers
• War Jobs
• Medics, nurses, ect

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Life at Home

• Which side was effected more by the war?
• The South- Why?
• Battles were mostly fought in the South
• Crops and homes were lost
• Shortages in food and feed for animals
• Shortages in clothing, medicine, shelter

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Opposition to the War

• Did everyone want war????
• No- Republican party began to split on war
  issues.
• Enlistments began to decline on both sides.
• What did they do?
• South enlisted a Draft
• First the North tries using bounties
• Eventually they also enlist a draft

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Avoiding War

• What were some ways men were able to avoid
  war?????
• In the South if you lived on a plantation with
  more than 20 slaves you could stay home
• In the north you could hire a substitute or pay
  the government 300 o avoid being drafted
• What do you think this did?
• Caused a lot of people to label this a rich
  mans war, but a poor mans fight.

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War and the Economy

• Which sides economy was hurt by the war?
• Both
• Who was able to cope with it better and why?
• The North had more resources and industry
• What did each side do to pay for the War?
• Borrowed money-by selling war bonds
• Increased taxes
• Printed paper money

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Show me the Money

• What happened to the economy in the North???
• They were able to prosper during the war because
  it actually had the factories and resources to
  support the war and the steady demand for
  supplies

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And the South???

• It lacked the industry to provide for the War
• Also the fighting occurred in the south so it
  destroyed most of its crops
• Inflation occurred, which is???
• A general increase in prices
• In the south prices rose 9,000 percent to 80
  percent in the North.