• Used lottery system to recruit people
• by the end blacks were used alot in the war because og the need for more people

• Fredericksburg, Virginia
• the Union army was destroyed because Burnside had them cross an open field

• September 22, 1862
• preserve the union
• boost morale
•  south has until January 1, 1863 to rejoin the union or Lincoln will free the slaves everywhere he wins

• Rebuild the South and our relationship with them
• fix cities and free slaves

• Cotton prices take 20 yrs to recover
• property values almost gone
• railroads damaged
• money worthless

• 630,000 lives lost +1,000,000 die from disease
• 4 million slaves set free
• 1 out of 12 men served in the war
• almost all head or torso injuries meant death

• Gave people land for free to help settle the West
• 1862

• Successful
• help 250,000 blacks and whites get an education
• protected former slaves legal rights

• only 10% of a state had to swear loyalty to join union
• very lenient

• Harsh
• wanted to punish the South
• wanted the South's economy to be just like the North's

• Literacy tests
• grandfather clause
• Paul taxes

• People farmed land in exchange for farm supplies and a share of the crop
• bad like slavery

No

• no political background or experience
• surround himself with the wrong people
• just prints more money to pay for damages

Good

• gave blacks rights, rebuild cities, improved South's infrastructure

Bad

• Jim Crow laws and black codes= no real rights
• sharecropping and tenant farming

• Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 anti-slavery novel popularized the abolitionist position

• Aloud strugglers North the Missouri border to decide the slavery issue for themselves

• Said slaves were not citizens
• said that slaves were property

• Suspended by Lincoln so people can be imprisoned without the process of law
• uses the Marshall plan, military runs it