RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
LIFE IN THE SOUTH AFTER THE CIVIL WAR
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Question
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African Americans needed housing, clothing, food, and jobs.
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Confederate money had no value
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Slavery was booming and became more popular
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Railroads, bridges, plantations, and crops were destroyed.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The most difficult task confronting many Southerners during Reconstruction was devising a new system of labor to replace the shattered world of slavery. The economic lives of planters, former slaves, and nonslaveholding whites, were transformed after the Civil War.
Detailed explanation-2: -Name the 3 major problems the South faced at the end of the Civil War. Their land was ruined; No law or authority; Loss of enslaved workers.
Detailed explanation-3: -Many of the railroads in the South had been destroyed. Farms and plantations were destroyed, and many southern cities were burned to the ground such as Atlanta, Georgia and Richmond, Virginia (the Confederacy’s capitol). The southern financial system was also ruined. After the war, Confederate money was worthless.
Detailed explanation-4: -The aftermath of the war left portions of the Confederacy in ruins, and with little or no money to rebuild. State governments were mired in debt, and white planters, who had most of their capital tied up in slaves, lost most of their wealth.