Sections 1

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The Tide of War Turns

• Chapter 17
• Sections 12

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The Emancipation Proclamation

• Abolitionists demand action
• As Union sweeps through South, thousands of
  slaves escape
• Supporters pressure government to end slavery
  forever, but Lincoln only wants to preserve Union
• Lincoln decides that if freeing the slaves will
  weaken the South then it should be done
• Emancipation Proclamation
• Proclamation made by Lincoln as Commander in
  Chief
• All Slaves in Confederate territory were free
• Not those enslaved in North

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The Nation Responds

• Seen as a military action to weaken the South
• Added a moral purpose to the War
• No longer to preserve the Union, but to free
  millions from slavery
• A war of liberation
• Abolitionists were pleased, but upset that the
  Proclamation did not free all slaves
• Many slaves escaped into Union territory
• African American men received into the Union army
• 54th Massachusetts Volunteers
• Heroic former slaves

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War Affects Society

• Slaves affect the Confederacy
• Many slaves refused to work or ran away to join
  Union forces
• Upheaval in the North
• Copperheads northern Democrats who oppose
  Lincoln and the war
• Lincoln suspends habeus corpus the right to
  know charges against you and be tried for those
  charges.
• Conscription The Draft
• Laws made in North and South made required men to
  serve in the military
• The wealthy could pay substitutes to serve in
  their place
• The draft was extremely unpopular in both the
  North and South

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Economic and Social Change

• Southern economy
• Food shortages
• Inflation increase in the cost of goods and a
  decrease in the value of money
• Northern economy
• The first income tax A tax on earnings
• Greenbacks paper money that helped citizens and
  helped pay for war
• Women aid the war effort
• Took over jobs held by men
• Volunteered
• Nurses