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Hace 5 días · American Civil War - Cost, Significance, Impact: 21st-century data has revised the total death toll upward to 752,000. Roughly two percent of the 1860 population of the U.S. died in the war.
The initial sections of this article contain estimates of the cost of the American Civil War to the Union and the Confederacy. These cost estimates are of two types, direct and indirect. The direct measure is computed by adding up the actual war expenditures of both sides.
25 de mar. de 2015 · By the standards of the era, the cost of the American Civil War was huge. The Federal government faced a problem that no other US government had faced – how to finance the cost of a major war. Many on both sides believed that the war would be short.
Hace 5 días · George Rogers Taylor concluded in “The National Economy Before and After the Civil War,” that “the economy had developed a tremendous thrust during the 1840's and 1850's, a momentum the Civil War may have temporarily retarded or accelerated but could not, or at least did not, fundamentally affect.”
The economic history of the American Civil War concerns the financing of the Union and Confederate war efforts from 1861 to 1865, and the economic impact of the war. The Union economy grew and prospered during the war while fielding a very large Union Army and Union Navy. [1]
23 de mar. de 2011 · The first and most important point is that the Civil War was expensive. In 1860 the U.S. national debt was $65 million. To put that in perspective, the national debt in 1789, the year George Washington took office, was $77 million.
This reconsideration of the Civil War by economic historians can be loosely grouped into four broad issues: the “economic” causes of the war; the “costs” of the war; the problem of financing the War; and a re-examination of the Hacker-Beard thesis that the War was a turning point in American economic history.
