Transcript Aftermath of the war

BELL RINGER- FORGIVENESS
 Think
about a time in your life when you
had an argument with a family member
(that you feel comfortable sharing)

In at least 5 lines explain…
What happened?
 How was it resolved?


List at least 3 obstacles you might face when you
are fighting with someone in your family (as
opposed to an outsider)?
“THE WHOLE FABRIC OF SOUTHERN
SOCIETY MUST BE CHANGED…IF THE
SOUTH IS EVER TO BE MADE A SAFE
REPUBLIC LET HER LANDS BE CULTIVATED
BY THE TOIL OF THE OWNERS, OR THE
FREE LABOR OF INTELLIGENT CITIZENS”
~Thaddeus Stevens
(Radical Republican)
reconstruction: rebuilding what
was destroyed
“Reconstruction era” (18651877) period when Confederate
states were controlled by the
federal government before being
readmitted to the Union.
Bell Ringer!
Record term definitions
and answer questions:
►Read above quote - What is
Stevens' view of Reconstruction?
►Do you think his ideas were
‘radical’? Explain
Lincoln’s successor : Andrew Johnson
The only member of Congress
from a seceded state to remain in
the Senate!
Johnson and Reconstruction
Favored leniency, quick return
to the union
 Believed individual rights,
including citizenship and voting
rights should be determined
by states, not federal gov’t

Treason… anyone?!
 Most
Confederate leaders were
pardoned (forgiven of crimes)
 Jefferson Davis was imprisoned for two
years, but was never tried for treason!
13th
AMENDMENT
Outlaws slavery and
involuntary servitude in
US
**except as
punishment for a crime
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Blue – ratified 13th amendment 1865
Green – ratified 13th amendment post-enactment
1865–1870
Purple – ratified 13th amendment after first rejecting
amendment, 1866–1995
Grey – territories of the US in 1865, not yet states
“Reconstruction Amendments”
13,14,15
The Thirteenth Amendment is the first of the
Reconstruction Amendments.
 Followed by the Fourteenth Amendment (civil
rights in the states) in 1868 and the Fifteenth
Amendment (which bans racial voting
restrictions) in 1870
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COSTS OF THE WAR
 Federal
debt (June 1865) rose to $2.7
billion (compare to today: $16.5 trillion)

http://www.usdebtclock.org/
 Inflation
Union: 182%
 Confederacy: 9,000%

 (That meant that something that cost $10 in January would cost nearly $1,000 in December,
and a Confederate dollar printed in 1861 was valued at about 3¢ in 1865, if you could find
anyone to take it!)
 3,000,000
men fought in the war (10%) of
the population
HUMAN COST

An estimate of the deaths in the Civil War is
623,026. This means that one out of eleven men
died during the Civil War years between 1861
and 1865.
War
Deaths
Revolutionary War
4,435
War of 1812
2,260
Mexican
13,283
Civil War
623,026
Spanish-American
2,446
World War I
116,516
World War II
406,742
Korea
54,246
Vietnam
57,939
Cause
Killed, or died of
wounds
Died of disease
In Confederate
prisons
Accidents
Drowning
Sunstrokes
Murdered
Killed after capture
Officers
6365
Enlisted Men
103705
Aggregate
110070
2712
83
197008
24783
199790
24, 866
142
106
5
37
14
3972
4838
308
483
90
4114
(*NOTE: The
4, 944 deaths from
313 accidents were
520 caused,
principally, by the
104 careless use of
fire-arms,
explosions of
ammunition, and
railway accidents;
in the cavalry
service, a large
number of
accidental deaths
resulted from poor
horsemanship.).)
Suicide
Military executions
26
365
267
391
267
Executed by the
enemy
Causes known, but
unclassified
4
60
64
62
1972
2034
Cause not stated
28
12093
12121
Aggregate
9, 584
349, 944
359528 (Deaths in
the Union Army,
from all causes, as
officially classified)
OTHER CONSEQUENCES OF
WAR:
 Federal
government grew
Income tax and new paper currency
 Federal banking system
 Federal funding of infrastructure
improvement
 Land grants
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 Northern
prospered
economy
THINK YOU CAN DO ANY BETTER??
CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES SIMULATION
Biggest Issues/Concerns:
 The Southern economy is in ruins
 Slavery has been abolished – 4 million slaves now
“free”
 Northerners and Southerners feel anger towards
one another
Acting as a member of Congress YOU MUST
HELP THE NATION RECOVER and PLAN A
PATH FOR THE FUTURE!
Who will have the best plan?
COMMITTEE WORK:

As a team answer this questions:

What are the biggest problems we face as a nation
following the war?

List at least 5 and rank them in importance – 1 most
important
Then, come up with a plan to:
1 - Re-admit the Southern states back into the
union
2 - Deal with leaders of the Confederacy and
assure loyalty of Confederate citizens to the
union
3 - Assist former slaves that are now free