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LESSON 3
The War at Home
Drafting an Army
• The Confederacy passed a conscription law that
required men of a certain age fight in the army.
o Draft dodgers were men who refused to enlist.
o Deserters were men who ran away from their duty.
o Plantation owners who had more than 20 slaves could
pay for someone to serve in their place.
• The Union also passed a conscription law, but
men could pay a fee to avoid serving.
Drafting an Army
What did it mean to say the Civil War was “a rich man’s
war and a poor man’s fight”?
Hardships on the Homefront
Just as they did in the American Revolution, women
took on extra duties and helped the war effort.
Hardships on the Homefront
Shortages and High Prices
• The Union’s naval blockade caused shortages of basic items, such as
cloth, thread, needles, coffee, sugar, and flour.
• Resourcefulness and rationing helped to some degree, but many
Southerners suffered.
• Widespread inflation made things worse and led to riots in some
places and caused opposition to the war to grow.
Hardships on the Homefront
Why do you think
the Union The war divided the South
Secessionist
distributed food
in did not like Lincoln because he
was against the spread of slavery
areas it occupied
SC leaders believed that each state
in the South?government should have the right to control its
own citizens
SC Unionists opposed secession because they
believed that the Constituion could protect the
rights of slave owners.
Southern women get food from a Union food supply
station, or commissary.
Hardships on the Homefront
• The war divided the South
• Secessionist did not like Lincoln because he was against the spread of
slavery
• SC leaders believed that each state government should have the right
to control its own citizens
• SC Unionists opposed secession because they believed that the
Constitution could protect the rights of slave owners.
The Cost of War
• The end of the war meant the end of slavery
and the plantation system.
• $4 billion cost to the South from emancipation.
• Drop in land values due to destruction.
• South Carolina suffered huge losses in
livestock.
• Whole sections of South Carolina were reduced
to rubble and the land was destroyed.
The Cost of the War
How do you think Sherman’s “March to the Sea” affected South
Carolina after the war ended?
The Cost of War
How do you think the destruction of plantations and the end of slavery
changed the view Southerners had of themselves?
The Cost of War
A Staggering Death Toll
Source: Civil War Trust (http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/faq/)
620,000 Americans lost their lives during the Civil War.
The death toll remains greater than any other war
Americans have fought in.
Celebration and Sadness
• After the war, freedmen held a grand march to
celebrate their freedom in Charleston.
• Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth
assassinated President Lincoln on April 14, 1865.
o The North reacted with grief.
o The South had mixed feelings. Some were indifferent,
others were afraid of what his death meant for the
future.