Many people know that the Southern states of the Confederacy lost their slaves. However, many do not know the economical and physical effects that the nationwide war caused. This report will go over a few of the many effects that the war caused. These will include what happened to the slaves, the farmers and the economy itself. It will also go over what the world might have been like if the South had won.

First, we have the slaves. They might have been free but most of them remained at the farms where they had been slaves, to work for pay. The government had refused to pay the slaves enough money to get them on their feet and in a house. The slaves would receive a small pay and a place to sleep at the farms but most of them did not get any more than that. They...