Chapter 17 section 4:
Civil War (continued)

nurses DURING the war

• At the beginning of the war nurses where shunned from military hospitals,but as more wounded came in the women were allowed to help.After the war nursing was highly looked up on for women.

Problems faced by northeners

• The government established a income tax in 1861.
• Inflation happened because the government made $400 million in paper money
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Ulysses S. grant's "total war"

• Grant wanted total war which meant that he wanted to destroy every product captured and thing useful to the enemy

Results of war

• Ultimately the north won, and the republican party won control over the democratic party
• thousands of families where war weary, father less, and son less.

LINCOLN'S goal at reelection

• Lincoln saw that he most likely wouldn't be reelected before the Union captured Atlanta, also northerners didn't like the way he handeled the war
• Then Sherman capture Atlanta folowing furter victories, and so the north rallied around him
• So Lincoln's goal was to win the votes of the American people with victories

union STRATEGIES FOR victory

• They applide total war
• They made new technologies
• They had nurses in the hospitals

life during the civil war

• Life during the civil war was hard because of the splitting of families
• it was also hard because of the raised prices of goods and in the less value of money

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES for women nurse

• Women where now able to work as nurses and gained the respect of the men for what they took on while the war went on

the resentment of draft law by farmers

• the farmers had to leave the farm work to their families who had little to no experience and then had to go off to war
• Also the rich could pay $300 or pass it off to the poor, and usualy to farmers

grant's plan to end the war

• One plan to end the war was total war which was to take away anything useful to the enemy even from civilians

lincoln's plan for peace

• His plan was to bind the nation back up in to one great "United States" and not the confederated states