Union Victory
Why the North Won
  • greater manpower/industrial resources
  • leadership
  • decision for emancipation
Altered relationships in government
states/federal
executive/legislative/judicial branches
radical and moderate Republicans
President vs. Congress power struggle -> short term successes
  • reunited union
  • political opportunities to former slaves
  • rearranging race relationships in South
Ended Slavery/divisible union
13th Amendment - dramatic social and economic change
exploitative/ soil intensive sharecropping system
Unresolved questions
Radical Republicans to change south's attitude culture/party in south -> failed
  • southern resistance 
  • waning North resolve
Changed identity
Rights and minorities
Description
At Home
Both Union and Confederates 
  • mobilized economies and societies
  • faced home front opposition
Emancipation Proclamation
changed purpose of the war
African Americans fought in Union army
prevention of Confederate diplomatic help
How the war was fought
Initial Confederate leadership
Union succeeded in
  • improved leadership
  • effective strategies
  • key victories
  • greater resources
  • wartime destruction of south's environment/infrastructure
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