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Life During the Civil
War
African Americans
• Emancipation
Proclamation
• Militia
Act
 54th Massachusetts
Regiment
 Freed slaves form their
own regiments
 Spies and Guides
• Harriet
War
Tubman in the
Homefront- North
• Economy
 Income tax
 Higher tariffs
 Bonds
• Land
 Trans-Continental
Railroad- Pacific Railroad
Act
 Homestead Act of 1862
• Draft
 Hiring of “replacements”
leads to riots
• Copperheads
 Suspension of Habeas
Corpus
Homefront- South
•
Blockade
 Blockade runners- built by
British
•
Paying for the War
 Not a lot of money
 Steal from Union
 Inflation and food shortage
•
Draft, suspends Habeas
Corpus, and seizes private
property
Soldiers Life
• Disease!!!
 For every soldier
killed in battle two
dies of disease
• Prison
Camps
 Andersonville, GA
• Amputation
Women During the War
• Women
left at home
• Nursing
 Clara Barton- creation of
the red cross
• Spies
 Mary Ann PittmanConfederate
• Freed
Women?