MAJOR LAWS PASSED (UNION)

• Morrill Tariff Act (1862)
• Legal Tender Act (1862)
• Homestead Act (1862)
• Morrill Land Grant Act (1862)
• National Bank Act (1863)

MORRILL TARIFF ACT (1862)

• Doubled the prewar tariff
• Protected the economy

LEGAL TENDER ACT (1862)

• Authorized printing of a national currency
• Currency not backed up by gold or silver

HOMESTEAD aCT (1862)

• Granted 160 acres of western land to settlers
• Settlers had to agree to farm and build a house

NATIONAL BANK ACT (1863)

• Charter of federal banks authorized
• Supervision of the national bank system granted

MAJOR SPEECHES (UNION)

• Emancipation Proclamation (Lincoln - 1863)
• Gettysburg Address (Lincoln - 1863)

EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION

GETTYSBURG ADDRESS

MAJOR LAWS PASSED (CONFEDERATE)

CONSCRIPTION ACT (1862)

• Initially drafted all young men
• Later extended to middle-aged men
• Blacks were excluded from the draft

MAJOR SPEECHES (CONFEDERATE)

CORNERSTONE SPEECH

• Established differences between constitutions of the US and Confederacy
• Stated that slavery was a black man's "natural state"

UNION SOLDIERS

• Usually the invading force
• Defending an ideology; a government
• Mostly made up of young white men
• More likely to be educated than a confederate soldier
• Enrolled slaves in the military

CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS

• Usually the defending force
• Defending home territory, honor, family
• Mostly made up of young male farmers
• Foreigners fought
• Less likely to be educated than a union soldier