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The Civil War marked one of the great defining moments in U.S. history. Although what happened before that, life before the Civil War. Before the Civil there were thousands of slaves in the south. Life in the south was mostly farms and plantations. The No rth had factories and industries. The North believed slavery was wrong, but the south was strongly against that belief. Life was hard for a slave before the Civil war, in the South that is. They labored on plantations and farms which required much more exhausting work. Machines in the South were a little complicated, but looked very dangerous and exhausting. Machines in the North looked a little complicated and dangerous but just required a little time. Life before the Civil War was different for the North and the South. A Cotton Press- South in the South .The Lieutenant Talbot was a newspaper that warned Southern Democrats that it is likely that the squatter sovereign Senator Douglas will be nominated as candidate for the presidency at the upcoming Democratic convention. Article asks that the South send only the most loyal Southerners to the convention.
The Baltimore paper complained that the secessionists have asked for a truce and are now using the time the U.S. government has granted them to build up fortifications and raise an army. Both sides made use of recent technological advances. The most important was the rifled musket carried by infantrymen on both sides and war ships that saw action on a broad scale. In 1846-1848 , troops largely used smooth bore muskets. Smooth bores were not very accurate beyond 150 yards, and so opposing armies equipped with them had to be placed very close to one another. In the Civil War , smooth bores gave way to rifled muskets. Rifled muskets have grooves on the inside of their barrels that put spin on bullets, giving them a maximum range of about 500 yards. The rifled musket was actually invented 400 years before the Civil War, but the technology was not widely utilized As important as new technologies were to the Civil War , it bears noting that new scientific developments did not find their way into all aspects of the conflict, even when they easily could have. The most notable failures were in the area of medicine. Anesthesia was developed by an American dentist more than a decade before the war started. In the 1850s, European doctors began to speak of germ theory, stressing the importance of using clean hands and instruments to perform medical procedures. Nonetheless, these ideas were not embraced by the Civil War medical establishment. As a result, countless thousands of soldiers suffered agonizing pain while undergoing amputations and thousands of others died of unnecessary infections.Some otherknown technology were.1840 Kerosene lamps first used1840 Patent for telegraph granted in USA1841 Ordnance Survey Act provided surveyors with legal access rights to all land for1844 First telegraph key invented
1845 Faraday effect first noted on plane polarized light 1846 The cylinder printing press is invented 1848 Kelvin develops his temperature scale 1850 Robert Bunsen invents the Bunsen burner 1851 Charles Babbage invented the occulting telegraph
1854 Hallway windmill for pumping water invented 1856 Bessemer process for steel production introduced 1860 Internal combustion engine developed by Lenoir
1860 Patent for resistance welding granted

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The conditions of slaves under these circumstances were most easily grouped into the experiences of field slaves and house slaves. The vast majority of plantation slaves labored in the fields, while a select few worked at domestic and vocational duties in and around the owners' houses. Each situation brought its own set of demands, hazards, and perks regarding not only labor, but also quality of food, clothing, and shelter received.

Weekly food rations -- usually corn meal, lard, some meat, molasses, peas, greens, and flour -- were distributed every Saturday. Vegetable patches or gardens, if permitted by the owner, supplied fresh produce to add to the rations. Morning meals were prepared and consumed at daybreak in the slaves' cabins. The day's other meals were usually prepared in a central cookhouse by an elderly man or woman no longer capable of strenuous labor in the field. Recalled a former enslaved man: "The peas, the beans, the turnips, the potatoes, all seasoned up with meats and sometimes a ham bone, was cooked in a big iron kettle and when meal time come they all gathered around the pot for a-plenty of helpings!" This took place at noon, or whenever the field slaves were given a break from work. At the day's end, some semblance of family dinner would be prepared by a wife or mother in individual cabins. The diets, high in fat and starch, were not nutritionally sound and could lead to ailments, including scurvy and rickets. Enslaved people in all regions and time periods often did not have enough to eat; some resorted to stealing food from the master. House slaves could slip food from leftovers in the kitchen, but had to be very careful not to get caught, for harsh punishments awaited such an offense.

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The North in 1865 was an extremely prosperous region. Its economy had boomed during the last war, bringing economic growth to the factories and farms. Since the war had been fought almost entirely on Southern soil, the North didn't have to face the task of rebuilding. Although it was pretty prosperous, the war was expensive for the North and they eventually had to raise money for it. The government printed  $450 million in “greenbacks" during the war - these notes were not redeemable in gold and their value fluctuated widely during the conflict. The South, however, had sustained immense damage. Entire cities lay in ruins. Thousands of people lacked the means to provide food, clothing, or shelter for themselves or their dependents. The Federal government did little to assist the needy. The creation of the Freedmen’s Bureau was one of the few efforts to do so. The South harbored deep feelings of hatred toward the North, but lacked an effective forum for venting those feelings. Tensions were heightened by the actions of the scalawags and Carpetbaggers Efforts to regulate relationships between the newly freed slaves and their former masters were made in the black codes. The Confederacy had printed more than $800 million in paper money during the course of the war. Massive inflation had resulted. The currency and other government securities were worthless, destroying the savings of thousands.