The document summarizes key events and developments during the American Civil War. It discusses the Emancipation Proclamation that freed slaves in Confederate states and allowed African Americans to join the Union army. It also describes how the Confederacy and Union implemented conscription and dealt with dissenters. The economies of the North and South were affected differently, with the Union economy strengthening due to factories supplying the war effort while the Confederacy struggled with shortages and a weakened economy due to the loss of resources to the war and Union blockade of ports.

1. Unit 2- The Civil War

2. I. Emancipation Proclamation
 A. Issued by Lincoln in 1863
 B. Ordered emancipation, freedom on slaves in
Confederacy (with no payment)

3.  C. Allowed African Americans to join Union army
 10% of Union army by end of the war
 Most were former slaves
 Higher death rates because of dangerous jobs
 Many executed by Confederacy if captured
 D. Confederacy knew that this was now a fight to
the death

4. II. Disloyalty
 A. Lincoln suspended habeas corpus to over
13,000 Copperheads, Northerners who supported
the Confederacy
 Habeas Corpus- Right to have formal charges
brought against a person that is arrested

5.  B. Conscription- A draft to force people to join
the army
 1. Confederacy- All white men 18-35 (17-50)
 Did not include large slave owners
 2. Union- White men 20-45
 92% were volunteer, including 180,000 blacks
 * Rich could pay for substitutes

6. III. Economies Affected
 A. Union- Northern economy got stronger as
factories got busier supplying the war
 Income tax (1863)- tax on personal income, 1st
time in US

7.  B. Confederacy- Food shortages and struggling
economy
 Loss of manpower to war, Union blockade of
ports