RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
HOMESTEAD ACT
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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People needed jobs and money
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To avoid becoming a homesteader
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It was ordered by Abraham Lincoln
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Because no one wanted to work on farms anymore
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Detailed explanation-1: -The antebellum South was heavily agrarian. Following the American Civil War, the South was impoverished and heavily rural; it was mainly reliant on cotton and a few other crops with low market prices.
Detailed explanation-2: -The South, with an agricultural/ slave/people-based economy primarily devoted to profitable cotton, never really saw the need to integrate industry into its comfortable plantation life. The South rejected the factories and the move into cities.
Detailed explanation-3: -Although the South had prosperous farms, it failed to build a deep and broad industrial infrastructure prior to 1860, because much of its economy rested on a slave agricultural system. In this economy, investments were heavily concentrated in slaves rather than in an urban and industrial infrastructure.
Detailed explanation-4: -After the end of Reconstruction, racial segregation laws were enacted. These laws became popularly known as Jim Crow laws. They remained in force from the end of Reconstruction in 1877 until 1965. The laws mandated racial segregation as policy in all public facilities in the southern states.