The Civil War 2

All right, I'm going to pick up where I left

off. Um, let's see.

I think I was here.

All right.

So how many soldiers died in the Civil War?

Lots of you asked me this.

It's always interesting to know, Um, just the impact that

this war had on our population and people in the

country. So how many people died in the Civil War?

Quite a bit.

Approximately 620,000 soldiers died from combat accidents, starvation and disease.

Um, when you look it up, sometimes you get anywhere

from 600,000 to 620,000 soldiers.

Um, so somewhere in that range of people, that's the

number of people that were killed in this war and

really not all just from combat and, uh, battles.

If you remember, when we talked about the American Revolution,

a lot of people actually died from disease and starvation.

A lot more people die from that than actual fighting

itself. And that is the case for this war as

well. So two thirds of those killed in the civil

war died of disease.

So way more people died of disease in this war

than anything else.

Um It's pretty crazy to think about, but if you

remember, we talked about how we didn't know.

There's just it wasn't the same kind of medicine it

wasn't. We didn't have the same kind of knowledge and

technology of disease and everything like that back then, which

is still the case for this war as well.

They didn't believe they didn't have germ theory yet.

So if you think about that, they didn't even know

what germs were.

They didn't understand how we spread disease, you know, touching

and sharing things so and, you know, contamination.

You think of the contaminated water and food that soldiers

might have had to eat and drink, so they just

they had no knowledge of germs and how diseases were

spread, which caused many, many people to actually die of

disease in the Civil War.

More than any other, you know any other cause, which

is pretty crazy to think about, and another fact about

the Civil War.

It's technically the deadliest war in American history.

Now, when you think about that, that's because everybody who

participated in this war was an American, so everyone that

died was an American person because it was all Americans

who were fighting in this war.

It wasn't us against another side.

So still, it's the deadliest war in American history, which

is pretty crazy.

Yeah, the next question I had, I had a few

people asked me about Abraham Lincoln and kind of what

he had to do with the war.

Um, what was his role in it?

So he did have a pretty big impact on the

country at the time and how the war went.

So if you didn't know that he was the president

during the time of the civil War.

So he actually became president in 18 61 which was

the same year as the Civil War started.

Right? And he agreed with the Northern States.

He opposed slavery.

He thought that it was morally wrong.

And, um, you know, so the Northern States sided with

him. He was kind of on the side with the

union, um, which really created this huge rift in the

country. It made the South very angry that their president

I was going to support something like this because again

they felt that getting rid of slavery was going to

ruin their way of life in the south and the

farming and the money that they made.

So to have their president want to get rid of

slavery was a pretty big deal and had a really

big impact on this war.

Mhm. So when he won alright, when he won the

election, seven states seceded.

So if you remember from your reading on Tuesday, I

asked you to look up what it means to succeed.

So these states that seceded, it means they pulled out.

They left the country right?

So just because he won the election, it calls seven

states to be like I don't want to even be

part of this country anymore.

They were that upset about it because again they they

needed slavery to sustain their way of life.

So they were not going to support a president that

was going to what they thought ruined their way of

life. Right?

So Southerners really thought that he was going to work

against them to abolish slavery and make their lives very

different, and much harder, I'm sure so soon after those

seven states seceded, four more states soon followed, and those

11 states created the Confederate states of America so that

was the map that I showed you.

All of those states in red actually broke off to

create their own country.

And Abraham Lincoln becoming president, had a really big part

in that they did not want to support him.

And when he won, that's what kind of caused all

of them to be like.

All right, we're out of here.

We're not doing this.

Yeah. So who won the war?

All right.

If you didn't know who won the war, obviously, a

lot of people wanted to know.

You know, the one who lost the North won the

Civil War.

The union, Right.

So after four years of fighting, the Confederate armies finally

surrendered in April 18, 65.

So if you think about some of the things that

we've talked about the North, it makes sense that the

North would win.

So one.

If you think about the sheer size of the North

and the people the population like we talked about, it

was they had more than twice as many people.

They had more than twice as many soldiers.

So that alone puts you know them at a pretty

big advantage to win this war.

They had you know, somewhat of established government.

They had an army, whereas the Confederate armies, I mean,

these states broke off and they didn't really have a

strong leader.

They didn't really have, um, an estate well established army

like the North did.

So it makes It makes a lot of sense that

the North would win.

They just have more people, more manpower, more weapons, more

supplies. Um, do you think about, you know, the industries

and businesses that they had in the north versus the

South, which is much more farming.

It just really stacked a lot of stuff against the

South to win this war.

And some of the things that the North did were

it's pretty smart on their part.

Um, one example is that the North used their navy

to block some of the ports in the South.

So you think about the South and what they do

for a living.

They relied heavily on importing and exporting the things that

they farmed.

That's how they made their money.

So the North thought it would be pretty smart to

bring in the Navy, block those ports from being able

to, you know, ship out different things which cut them

off from supplies and cut them off from the money

that they were making.

So they just had a lot of things like that

going on.

That really made it possible for them to make the

Southern's life very difficult.

So the North won the Union one, and the Confederate

Army is the side that surrendered.

So again, how did they do it?

Bigger and better, if that's kind of the summary of

it, right?

More people, more manpower, more weapons, all of that stuff

that makes it possible to win a war.

A lot of the war actually took place in the

South to like we talked about.

So a lot of these bigger battles are taking place

in Southern States.

And if we think of the devastation and things that

happen when you have these battles, a lot of their

homes and their arms and things were being destroyed as

well, where that wasn't happening quite as much in the

north. So again, a lot of things that made it

very hard for the South to be victorious in this

war. All right, my next one, How did the civil

War impact the south?

So the south is the side that lost.

They're going to have, you know, a bigger impact.

Things are gonna happen.

Bigger things are gonna change for them than in the

North. So it really bankrupted much of the South.

You think about again.

The war took place mostly in the South.

A lot of the farms and things were destroyed.

Um, those people don't have a life anymore.

Their homes and their farms and everything are ruined.

So a lot of people lost a lot of money.

Um, during this war, it left its roads and farms

and factories and things, all in ruins.

Things were just destroyed.

It even wiped out basically an entire generation of men,

you know, brothers and dads who went off to this

war. Many of them didn't come back.

Um, which makes it really hard for, you know, the

families to make money and keep going when they don't

have the men in the family to help.

And those that did return home really just found ruins.

You think about coming home, you might not even have

a home anymore.

So it really had a huge impact on Southerner's way

of life and how they lived and what they even

had to come home to.

So a really huge impact on the South and I

have a few pictures.

These are both from South Carolina.

You can see just the devastation that took place here.

You can see buildings and how everything was just kind

of destroyed.

And imagine that being your town.

And that's kind of what you have to come home

to, like, What do you even do from there?

Um, it really, really ruined a lot of people's life.

The people in the South where it didn't have quite

as big of an impact on people in the North.

And the last question I have here, I'm not gonna

go into too much depth about We'll talk a little

bit more about it at another time.

But really, what was the greatest impact of the Civil

War? What do we remember most about what happened afterward?

What was the impact of it once it ended?

And that is the end of a slavery.

So if you think about slavery was the main issue

with this war, something had to be resolved.

So at the end of this war, the 13th Amendment

to the Constitution.

So an amendment is kind of like a change, right?

They actually amended the Constitution.

Um, the 13th Amendment said that it made slavery illegal

in the United States.

Alright. And former slaves became new American citizens.

Now, this was a law, you know, slavery was illegal.

But I do just want to note that this isn't

technically the end of slavery.

It's not like all of a sudden, everybody was just

okay. With a slaves being free and all of that,

there was still a lot, a lot, a lot of

issues with slavery.

But the war brought on this law that made slavery

illegal. So we'll talk more about how that plays out,

you know, in the rest of history at a later

time. But I just want you to realize that this

war broad this change to the Constitution that ended technically

ended slavery.

Right? Um, so that's kind of the biggest impact it

has that, you know, on our country.

So when you come back, there were a lot of

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