1. Political Changes
-Power of the Federal Gov’t is supreme : no state will secede again
-extension of federal powers: did not lose state’s rights, only had more FED power
-income taxes first used
-citizens drafted into service
-civil liberties suppressed Habeas Corpus

2. Economic Changes -growth of war related industries
Construction of 1st NAT’l Railroad, and new laws about the Nat’l Bank
-accept new paper currency
-Northern industry grew stronger
-southern economy is destroyed
-must be rebuilt
*40% of livestock destroyed
*Much of the S’s RR & farm Machinery destroyed
* 12% of Nation’s wealth

3. Built from

5. Costs of War -deaths 360,000 Union 260,000 Conf. -1/2 million wounded
War causes a HUGE destruction to ways of life: family, education, job
-about 20 billion $
5 times the amount spent in the previous 80 years

6. Military Deaths in American Wars
Casualties of the Civil War
Affects 1.5 million men

8. Warfare Changes -new weapons rifles: better aim
mini ball: more destructive
trench warfare
grenades
submarine
iron-clad ships : Could splinter wooden ships, withstand cannon fire and resist burning
Monitor N
Merrimack, S renamed VA

9. Lives Change -13th Amendment bans slavery
-soldiers return to their homes
-urban population grows
-many move west
-Homestead Act, 1862
-gave 160 acres to each settler to “improve” the land for 5 years
-many families destroyed by deaths of soldiers

10. 14th Amendment
Defines citizenship and equal protection under the law

11. Lincoln’s Assassination
-Lincoln’s Plan
forgiving peace to restore the Union
-At Ford’s Theatre just 5 days after the war’s end
-John Wilkes Booth – assassin
-First assassination of a President

12. Lincoln’s Assassination
-Lincoln’s Plan
forgiving peace to restore the Union
-At Ford’s Theatre just 5 days after the war’s end
-John Wilkes Booth
-First assassination of a President

13. Lincoln’s Assassination
-Lincoln’s Plan
forgiving peace to restore the Union
-At Ford’s Theatre just 5 days after the war’s end
*Our American Cousin
-John Wilkes Booth
-First assassination of a President
*"Sic semper tyrannis!"[25] the Latin Virginia state motto, meaning "Thus always to tyrants." Other accounts state that he also uttered "The South is avenged!"