HIST 106 1st Edition Lecture 1 Outline of Current Lecture I Reconstructing the Union II III IV V KKK Election of 1860 Civil War Industrial Revolution Current Lecture The election of 1860 The issue was slavery Abraham Lincoln won 11 states seceded 22 remained in the union The North had very many resources Civil War 1861 1865 o The bloodiest war of the century o Very costly The South compared to North The union lost 360 000 people but they could afford to lose them b c they had so many people The South lost 260 000 Lincoln s government spent 4 billion dollars to built factories and railroads in the North The South spent 2 billion overseas and the money was eventually lost The Northern soldiers went home with 235 each as Southerners went home with nothing Lincoln s 10 Plan by the end of the war if 10 of southern legislatures would pledge their loyalty to US and its laws this group would establish a state government 1863 Emancipation Proclamation does not free slaves in north or border states It frees slaves in the south It was designed to pull the rug out from the southern economy The war ended April 1865 April 14th Lincoln told cabinet that if they are wise they will get the Union on track These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute That night Lincoln was shot to death and killed the only hope for a peaceful reconstruction in the South Andrew Johnson took over Presidency Organizations formed to protect the South The Black Codes laws passed by states and municipalities denying many right of citizenship to free black people after the war KKK Started as an organization of vandals who would stab newly freed slaves 1869 become so violent that the Nathan the creator resigned They became very successful KKK means a circle of like minded people They quickly resort to violence beatings burning of crosses 1929 in Bryan TX the last clinching that we know of Johnson was not able to keep country together Congress sends Union troops down to the South Radical Reconstruction New president withdrawals troops from the south and it was the end of Radical Reconstruction Industrial Revolution 1870 1850 9000 miles of railroad tracks in the US 1900 200 000 miles of railroad tracks Population is rising in great numbers 99 million 14 million are immigrants The sewing machine was formed during this time 1867 type writer 1878 telegraph 1876 telephone The flush toilet was created in 1870s by Thomas Crapper sanitation was changed 1900 U S is the world s leading producer You need 4 things in order to industrialize 1 Nationalism irrational patriotism a belief that God is on your side 2 New View of Money not only is money important but the people who have it are also important 3 Legal Structure that enables you to make money without responsibilities Corporate Law before the industrial revolution French gave us legal structure Napoleon enforces dowry which slows French business down Napoleon passes a law that enforces inherited debt which also slows down business 4 Labor immigrants working to industrialize