A. The women were affected because they had to raise a family, get food on the table and do all the tasks that their husbands would do because they were gone fighting. Many women did become soldiers and leaders because the men were gone fighting and the community had to be led and a sense that they became soldiers but they would do tasks that anyone could do because they were women.
B. African Americans gained the right to vote, because as of the 15th amendment, even though the right was not able to be executed because of Black codes, the Civil War was all about slavery because the South wanted to keep slavery and the North wanted to abolish slavery. The North wanted to abolish slavery because they did not need it. The economy was growing in the North, with the building of banks and businesses, rather the South needed it because they didn’t want to work and farm cash crops so they would buy and sell slaves to pick and plant crash crops to make their profit.