Troubles on The Home Fronts

Dear Diary,
I have heard a lot about troubles on the home front from the soldiers passing through town. From what I understand, here are problems on both the North and South's home fronts.
Here is a list of events in the North:

• Problems with the textile industry because they had to drop the southern cotton. 
• Having to pay for the war; creating income tax.
• Legal Tender Act: the treasury creating "greenback" to have more money in circulation. (Fun fact: this is the first time the United States has had a single, common currency.
• Drafter rioters called "Peace Democrats" or Copperheads according to their opponents. Lincoln suspended habeas corpus to deal with the rioters. (I don't think he should be allowed to suspend Habeas Corpus. I believe everyone should be able to report if their imprisonment is unlawful.) 

Here is a list of events in the South:

• Could not keep up with the economic demands, almost to the point of collapse.
• Union blockade of the ports caused the Southerners to have to depend on their own farms and factories. 
• Could not really afford the war that is happening because the products they do have are not worth much. Confederate soldiers stole weapons, supplies, and food from Union soldiers.
• There is an inflation due to the value of the Confederate's money. The inflation has led to some riots already.
• The leaders of the South have been arguing about where the troops should go and just how independent they should be.

Both the Union and the Confederacy are facing problems that have to do with created an economy separate from each other. The United States was able to have a working economy because it had both the factories in the North and the farms in the South. Now the North doesn't have the farms it needs to produce its products, and the South does not have the ability to take its produce into products. Here is a photo of a five dollar greenback:

That's all for now Diary,

Rebecca

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