Aftermath of the war

Question 1

Positive:

Answer 1

• the war ended,
  -American was one country again,
  -The American economic progress could begin again (America grew very fast in the 2nd half of the 20th century
  -Avoid disaster
  -The country progressed
• Resolved the question of the union → the union was preserved
• Industry and business developed in the North
• West developed
  The notion of “free land”= individualism, enterprise, “Go West”
  Free homestead = farm

Question 2

-Homestead Act

Answer 2

1862: an act that granted free land (160 acres) to homesteaders to cultivate and live on it for five years.

Question 3

Morrill Act

Answer 3

1862: federal government gave free land to states to build state colleges State University (30,000 acres of free land to states per member of Congress: research in agriculture and engineering)

Question 4

-Pacific Railroad act

Answer 4

federal government gave free land to railroad companies: finance the transcontinental lines

Question 5

Negative:

Answer 5

• Killed and wounded 1 million
• $15 millions damaged property
• 4$ billion worth slaves
• Uncertain economy in the South
• Future of the South: Punished for their rebellion? Keep their properties?
  -massive work of reconstruction
  -rebuilding the south (no money)
  -slaves had nothing (no home)
  -the whole system of farming had to be re-done
  -slaves hadn’t education
  -school was prevented after the war = they could finally be educated
  -a big uneducated part of the population = blacks were not integrated and had no political rights
  -they were no more slaves but they hadn’t the right to vote, go to school, to being fed, to have houses = no rights at all.
  →This was a devastated war