Consequences of the Civil War

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Impacts on Lawlessness

  • Lawlessness
  • Defeated men from the South refused to obey Northern laws.
  • Those traumatised by war found it hard to fit back into society (alcholic?-  improved economy in San Francisco)
  • Mass unemployent due to the south's sabotaged economy

cattle industry

  • 5 million cows in texas after civil war
  • Gave ex-soldiers jobs as cowboys
  • Boosted economy in saloons (e.g. San Francisco) as cowbo#ys spent all their money there.
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