1. CHAPTER 16:
The Civil War
Section 4:
Daily Life During the War

2. VOCABULARY
 Emancipation: The freeing of the
slaves
 Habeas corpus: Constitutional
protection against unlawful
imprisonment
 Draft: Forced military service

3. THE EMANCIPATION
PROCLAMATION
 At first Lincoln only wanted to
preserve the Union

4. “If I could save the Union without freeing
any slave I would do it, and if I could save
it by freeing all the slaves I would do it;
and if I could save it by freeing some and
leaving others alone I would also do that.”
-Abraham Lincoln

5. THE EMANCIPATION
PROCLAMATION
 Later he realizes only
emancipation made
sense
 Antietam allowed
him to do it
 He wrote the
Emancipation
Proclamation

6. Lincoln and his Cabinet after Writing
the Emancipation Proclamation

7. THE EMANCIPATION
PROCLAMATION
• Only freed slaves in rebel territory
• Union didn’t control this area

8. African American Soldiers
Fighting for the Union

9. OPPOSITION
TO THE WAR
 Many
Northern
Democrats
were against
the war
• Called
Copperheads

10. OPPOSITION
TO THE WAR
 Others were
against the draft

11. New York
City Draft
Riots

12. OPPOSITION
TO THE WAR
 In response, Lincoln suspended
habeas corpus

13. Civil War
Casualty list
in the
Newspaper

14. Civil War Medicine

15. Civil War
Amputations

16. Civil War
Prison Camps

17. Andersonville Prison
in Georgia

18. ON THE HOME FRONT
 The economy in the North
boomed

19. Producing
the Weapons
of War

20. ON THE HOME FRONT
 Women ran family farms &
businesses – usually jobs for men