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11: Civil War a) Two societies at war: mobilization, resources, and internal dissent b) Military strategies and foreign diplomacy c) Emancipation and the role of African Americans in the war d) Social, political, and economic effects of war in the North, South, and West a): In the North, they... In the South, they...
 * These two societies were the North and the South.
 * Promoted economic development, especially in the West. They also worked to finance the war by levying taxes, issuing paper currency, and borrowing.
 * They increased the size of their army, used drafts and volunteers to do it, and by the end, 2 million men served in the Union army.
 * Lincoln engaged in various policies to keep the war effort going such as suspending habeas corpus and emancipation.
 * Woman helped in medical fields to support soldiers (also nursed them as well).
 * One internal dissent was that the Union had draft riots.
 * Could only find enough money by issuing paper currency.
 * They only were able to get enough men using conscription.
 * They had very little resources to work with, they were agrarian
 * Some internal dissent was that the Confederacy's people did not like the conscription and that they often reject national authority, even though vital in helping them.

b): Union: Confederacy:
 * Their strategy was to cut off the Confederacy in two and prevent it from receiving any foreign aid.
 * Some foreign events were the Trent Affair and the sale of British vessels to the Confederacy.
 * Their strategy was to hold out the war for as long as possible, until the Union gives up on the matter.
 * One important foreign policy was "King Cotton Diplomacy".

c): Emancipation: The freedom from control from others. Lincoln began emancipation of slaves beginning with the Confiscation Acts then the Emancipation Proclomation. African Americans had obviously supported the Union, there were a few regiments in the Union army that consisted of African Americans, though most were assigned menial tasks behind the lines; hey were mistreated.

d): For the South, it all went downhill for them, socially (the lost many men), economic (many areas of the South were burned, destroyed, or devastated), and politically (they sided with the Democrats who lost which meant that the Republics had a lot of power during the next few years. It was better for the North, their economy had grown (to the expense of the South), they were fully in control - political wise, but some social effects were that racism appeared in the North as well, but not as strong as the South. In the West, not much had changed, the North had more power in the area though.