Civil War #8

Question 0

What did women work in?

Answer 0

Industries
Government bureaucracy
Nurses
More access to higher education

Question 1

About how many women worked during the war?

Answer 1

100,000

Question 2

How did the war affect women?

Answer 2

War left thousands of woman widowed and devastated

Question 3

What were the southern politics?

Answer 3

Dissent prohibits Confederacy working together
States rights was a major obstacle
Calls for peace as early as 1863
Lack of nationalism created major problem for Davis

Question 4

What was the southern faith?

Answer 4

Devout society convinced it was a holy war

Question 5

How did the white southerners interpret the war?

Answer 5

They interpreted their mounting losses from different spiritual perspectives

Question 6

How did the black southerners interpret the war?

Answer 6

They found hope that the war was a fulfillment of prophecy

Question 7

What was the southern economy like?

Answer 7

1863: hard to feed the population
Riots in Mobile, Atlanta, and Richmond
Many slaves stopped working and abandoned plantations

Question 8

What did the southern women do during the war?

Answer 8

Managed plantations
Worked in factories making uniforms and munitions
taught school and worked in government offices
Helped hide deserting soldiers and helped them elude Confederate authorities
1864: very tired of war