History Unit 9 Life During the War Flashcards
Northern Opposition
Copperheads
Northern Economics
Income tax - 3% of over $800
Tariffs on foreign goods
War bonds (used to gain money as investments)
Who were the copperheads
Lead by Clement Vallandingham
Northern Democrats opposed to war effort push for an end of war/desertion of soldiers
Some prompt violence against Union
Habeas Corpus
Illegal to be held in jail without being charged
Lincoln suspends to end disloyalty
Arrests rioters and anti-Lincoln vocalists
Southern Society
Blockade
-forced to rely on Southern industry, which is small to begin with
Often interrupted by war
Southern economy
Money invested in land and slaves
-cotton, tobacco, and sugar
Market falls, cash flow falls
Inflation
Women and the war
Women replace men in the workplace (factories and farms and family stores)
Some masquerade as soldiers
Clara Barton cares for the wounded–>founds Red Cross
Conscription
Draft begins in 1862
Men aged 20-45
$300 buyout clause
Targets the poor
NYC Draft Riots 1863
Workers in NYC revolt
Poor cannot opt out
Afraid to losing their jobs to freed slaves
Working men attack (gov buildings, African Americans, including an orphanage, fires set across city)
Put down by federal troops
Camp life on the front lines
Many serve with local troops
Attend religious services
Baseball
Modern weaponry
Minie Ball
Gatling gun - early version of machine gun
Repeating rifles
Ironclads
Medicine
New weapons –> devastating wounds
Amputations
No knowledge of infection
Andersonville GA
Confederate soldiers starving in the field
Rarely feed union soldiers
33,000 union prisoners
12,000 die from starvation and disease
