Civilian life varied depending on whether or not you were in a Union or Confederate state. The Union consisted of the Northern states, the manufacturing centers of the US. The war itself was primarily fought on Southern soil, so citizens here would most likely be working in factories to produce war materials. It would have been relatively peaceful and went about their daily lives without interruption. The South, however, was a different story. Battles were fought here, and Union soldiers were instructed to burn and destroy houses, crops, and in general. The North enforced a naval blockade so that the Confederate states couldn't receive goods from any outside nation. There would have been a lack of necessary resources and many civilians were killed, raped, and robbed by Union soldiers. Even after the war ended, tensions lasted for about 5+ years and received no medical attention for the returning Confederate soldiers.
<span>The civil war affected many people. It affected slave owners, they were worried they were gonna loose their slaves. It affected the south, They seperate from the union and they made thier own country called the Confederate States of America.</span>
"Lofty financially well to do citizens who carried much power within the community" would generally be referred to as being part of an "aristocracy", since this is a government that is controlled by such people.
The Reconstruction era was the period after the American Civil War from 1865 to 1877, during which the United States grappled with the challenges of reintegrating into the Union the states that had seceded and determining the legal status of African Americans.
Three-fifths compromise, compromise agreement between delegates from the Northern and the Southern states at the United States Constitutional Convention (1787) that three-fifths of the slave population would be counted for determining direct taxation and representation in the House of Representatives.
