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PROFITING FROM THE CIVIL WAR

WAR PROFITEERING

• A war profiteer is anyone who profits from a war
• Many goods are sold during wars such as
• Food, clothing, ammunition, contracting, etc
• Wars can be very beneficial to a nations economy

CIVIL WAR PROFITEERING

• Since it was a war amongst themselves, the people
• Were fighting each other causing them to leave their jobs to go
• fight the other side. Fields of crops were burned and many homes
• were destroyed because it was on our own soil.

PROFITEERS

• Farm owners were able to sell food and cotton to troops
• Drafting caused people to buy people to fight for them
• Factories were running to produce guns and ammunition
• Miners and other gatherers worked to gather useful recourses
• Railroads were running to move war goods to the troops

CIVIL WAR

• The civil war was one one of our nations most
• devastating wars since it was fought on our
• soil, it had the second highest death toll of
• any other war fought by America because we
• were fighting ourselves.

CONCLUSION

• In the end, the war boosted our economy
• our economy because like many other wars
• we were able to produce goods
• and sell to the troops. It was devastating
• because so many Americans were killed in battle