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Strategies and Life During the Civil War: Hardships and Contributions

Learn about Northern and Southern military strategies, the Trent Event, soldier's hardships, life on the home front, and civilian contributions during the Civil War in the United States.

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Strategies and Life During the Civil War: Hardships and Contributions

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  1. Life During Civil War Mr. Simonetti

  2. Northern Military Strategies • 3 part strategy • Capture Richmond • Gain control of the Mississippi River • US Navy to blockade the South (Anaconda Plan; this was important because the South depended on foreign markets to sell its cotton and buy supplies)

  3. Southern Military Strategies • Capture Washington DC • Invade the North • Win a foreign ally (France or Britain)

  4. The Trent Event • Northern US warship stopped the British ship, THE TRENT, and removed 2 confederate soldiers who were negotiating with Britain • Britain was angered because the North violated its neutrality in war and demanded that the North release the two Confederates and apologize • Lincoln obliged

  5. Soldier’s Hardships • Unsanitary Conditions – POW camps • Disease – flu, pneumonia, and typhoid • Shortages of food, clothing, rifles

  6. Northern Life on the Home Front • Women took over work in factories and on farms • More jobs became available; women worked as bankers, saloon keepers, etc

  7. Southern Life of the Home Front • Many Patriotic events at first (urged young men to join Confederate army) • As the war went on, shortages developed and focus switched to survival (food shortages caused people to live on beans & potatoes)

  8. Civilian Contributions • Women did many previously male jobs • Women served as teachers, spies, and nurses • Loreta Velazquez disguised herself as a man and enlisted in the Confederate army…when she was found out, she was discharged and became a spy for the south

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