It affected women in the U.S because of how they were only there at home when usually their husbands were out fighting for the war. This provided more job opportunities for women and caused them to be the "head of the house".
<span>The answer to your question is they were village-based cultures built around clans, they were also very poor</span>
<u>How did the Union's victory strengthen the federal government</u>? The war demonstrated that the federal government would not tolerate states acting on their own (by making the Union more powerful than the other states). A stronger central government is more effective (the Union's victory), and the federal government owned the south for years after that to help rebuild from the civil war (giving them more power over the south). It also freed millions of African-Americans.
<em>States rights were largely made irrelevant, and the federal government took on powers forbidden by the Constitution.</em>
