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Reconstructing the Reconstructing the SouthSouth
What was the human cost of the Civil What was the human cost of the Civil War?War?
Why did the war turn out the way it did?Why did the war turn out the way it did?
What do we do with “former” What do we do with “former” Confederates?Confederates?
How did post-Civil War economics work?How did post-Civil War economics work?
How did Reconstruction work?How did Reconstruction work?
The Human Cost of The Human Cost of WarWar
The Human Cost of The Human Cost of WarWar
644,000 killed in the civil war644,000 killed in the civil war
The Human Cost of The Human Cost of WarWar
644,000 killed in the civil war644,000 killed in the civil war The North lost 140,000 on the battlefieldThe North lost 140,000 on the battlefield
The Human Cost of The Human Cost of WarWar
644,000 killed in the civil war644,000 killed in the civil war The North lost 140,000 on the battlefieldThe North lost 140,000 on the battlefield The South lost 104,000 on the battlefieldThe South lost 104,000 on the battlefield
The Human Cost of The Human Cost of WarWar
644,000 killed in the civil war644,000 killed in the civil war The North lost 140,000 on the battlefieldThe North lost 140,000 on the battlefield The South lost 104,000 on the battlefieldThe South lost 104,000 on the battlefield Combined losses to disease = 400,000Combined losses to disease = 400,000
The Human Cost of The Human Cost of WarWar
644,000 killed in the civil war644,000 killed in the civil war The North lost 140,000 on the battlefieldThe North lost 140,000 on the battlefield The South lost 104,000 on the battlefieldThe South lost 104,000 on the battlefield Combined losses to disease = 400,000Combined losses to disease = 400,000
ECONOMICSECONOMICS In 1860, the federal budget was $63 In 1860, the federal budget was $63
millionmillion
The Human Cost of The Human Cost of WarWar
644,000 killed in the civil war644,000 killed in the civil war The North lost 140,000 on the battlefieldThe North lost 140,000 on the battlefield The South lost 104,000 on the battlefieldThe South lost 104,000 on the battlefield Combined losses to disease = 400,000Combined losses to disease = 400,000
ECONOMICSECONOMICS In 1860, the federal budget was $63 In 1860, the federal budget was $63
millionmillion In 1865, the federal budget was $1.3 In 1865, the federal budget was $1.3
billionbillion
The Human Cost of The Human Cost of WarWar
644,000 killed in the civil war644,000 killed in the civil war The North lost 140,000 on the battlefieldThe North lost 140,000 on the battlefield The South lost 104,000 on the battlefieldThe South lost 104,000 on the battlefield Combined losses to disease = 400,000Combined losses to disease = 400,000
ECONOMICSECONOMICS In 1860, the federal budget was $63 millionIn 1860, the federal budget was $63 million In 1865, the federal budget was $1.3 billionIn 1865, the federal budget was $1.3 billion Through 1863, the Confederacy spent $2 Through 1863, the Confederacy spent $2
billion billion
Passion vs. ResourcesPassion vs. Resources
The South had more passionThe South had more passion The North had more resourcesThe North had more resources The North was more advanced with The North was more advanced with
technologytechnology The South won most of the battles in The South won most of the battles in
the early part of the war the early part of the war
The Confederate The Confederate QuestionQuestion
Senator Benjamin F. Wade
Representative Henry Winter Davis
President Abraham Lincoln
President Andrew Johnson
Mythic NationalismMythic NationalismTHE NORTH
“Battle Hymn of the Republic”
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord…
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are
stored…
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword…
His truth is marching on!
THE SOUTH
“Bonnie Blue Flag”We are a band of brothers, and
native to the soil…
Fighting for our liberty, with treasure, blood, and toil…
And when our rights were threatened, the cry rose near and
far…
Hurrah for the Bonnie Blue Flag that bears the single star!
Race IssuesRace Issues
““To the victor belongs the To the victor belongs the spoils”spoils”
Northern ControlNorthern Control
General William General William Tecumseh Tecumseh ShermanSherman
Southern in Name OnlySouthern in Name Only
The “Bloody Flag” The “Bloody Flag” IssueIssue
““But no one knelt--all were too But no one knelt--all were too proud to cowerproud to cower
Brave chieftain he! with Brave chieftain he! with bayonets aroundbayonets around
He warr'd on women--made the He warr'd on women--made the world resoundworld resound
With curses on the wretch With curses on the wretch whose edict placedwhose edict placed
The virtuous maid with those by The virtuous maid with those by lust disgracedlust disgraced
Who hung the man that nobly Who hung the man that nobly tore awaytore away
The The bloody flagbloody flag that shamed the that shamed the light of day…” – (PAGE 61)light of day…” – (PAGE 61)
“WAR: A Poem” Written by John H. Hewitt (1862)
Post Civil-War AmendmentsPost Civil-War Amendments
1313thth (1865) = Abolition of Slavery (1865) = Abolition of Slavery 1414thth (1865) = Citizenship (1865) = Citizenship 1515thth (1870) = Voting Rights (1870) = Voting Rights
The Black CodesThe Black Codes
Sharecropping & Sharecropping & PaternalismPaternalism
Racism vs. RacialismRacism vs. Racialism
What is the difference between What is the difference between them?them?
Racism vs. RacialismRacism vs. Racialism
What is the difference between What is the difference between them?them?
RACIALISM = a formal system or RACIALISM = a formal system or movement (supremacy, separatism)movement (supremacy, separatism)
Racism vs. RacialismRacism vs. Racialism
What is the difference between them?What is the difference between them?
RACIALISM = a formal system or RACIALISM = a formal system or movement (supremacy, separatism)movement (supremacy, separatism)
RACISM = a rationalized ideology RACISM = a rationalized ideology where blacks are inferior to whiteswhere blacks are inferior to whites