Life During Wartime

Life During Wartime

Section 11-3 pp. 351-356

Preview Questions

• What discrimination did African Americans face?

• How did the war affect the Northern and Southern economies?

• What conditions did soldiers face?

African Americans

• Many African Americans enlist in the Union army after the Emancipation Proclamation is issued. – Ex: 5th Massachusetts Regiment

• Discrimination in the Union Army – Served in segregated units – Fought with inadequate or no supplies – Paid less than whites or not at all

African Americans

• African Americans in the South – Slaves fought for Confederacy at end of war – Slaves protested by destroying property or

refusing to work – Some slaves ran away

War Affects Regional Economies• Southern Economy

Suffers: – Decline in slave

labor– Union blockade

led to smuggling– Scarcity of food

led to riots– Inflation cause

high prices

War Affects Regional Economies

• Northern Economy Prospers:– Demand for war goods led to manufacturing

boom– Wages did not increase, but prices did strikes– First national income tax used to pay for war

Soldiers Suffer on Both Sides• Lives on the Battlefield

– Poor sanitation and hygiene

– Poor rations (food supplies)

• Civil War Medicine – High death rates from

infection – Many amputations – Clara Barton founds

American Red Cross

Soldiers Suffer on Both Sides

• Prisons– Andersonville

(Confederate Prison) • Overcrowded • Exposed to outdoor

elements • Lack of food • Poor sanitation

– Northern prisons were not much better