RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
LIFE IN THE SOUTH AFTER THE CIVIL WAR
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Question
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Plantation owners no longer had slaves to work on their farms.
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Freed slaves were given ownership of most of the South’s large plantations.
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Demand for cotton was higher than what Southern plantations could produce.
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Northerners built factories on many Southern plantations.
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Detailed explanation-1: -After the Civil War, sharecropping and tenant farming took the place of slavery and the plantation system in the South. Sharecropping and tenant farming were systems in which white landlords (often former plantation slaveowners) entered into contracts with impoverished farm laborers to work their lands.
Detailed explanation-2: -The wealthy plantation owners were families that were slave owners. They made their money by making the slaves to do their work and get much profit in return. Their population was only about 1, 700 but was the highest class in the southern colonies. Slavery played a role in all the southern colonies.
Detailed explanation-3: -Former slaves would now be classified as “labor, ” and hence the labor stock would rise dramatically, even on a per capita basis. Either way, abolishing slavery made America a much more productive, and hence richer country.
Detailed explanation-4: -An individual who owned a plantation was known as a planter. Historians of the antebellum South have generally defined “planter” most precisely as a person owning property (real estate) and 20 or more slaves.