Axia College Material

Appendix D

The Civil War

Part One: Union and Confederate Home Fronts

Fill in the following matrix with the experiences on the Union home front and the Confederate home front. Include at least two experiences that illustrate the differences between the two home fronts and two experiences that illustrate the similarities on the two home fronts.

Civil War Home Fronts

Union Home Front

Confederate Home Front

Differences

Profits mainly from Industrial work

Most work in factories

Industrial factories that produce steel

Made their own weapons in their factories

Profits mainly from agricultural work

Most work on farms

Agricultural farms that produce cotton

Traded the Europeans for weapons and other goods that were unavailable to them

Similarities

Many individuals had...