RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
LIFE IN THE SOUTH AFTER THE CIVIL WAR
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Question
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Northern citizens refused to buy Southern goods and Southern industries were forced to close.
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Southern businesses refused to accept Northern investment money.
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Southern businesses and industries thrived, new factories were built across the region, and state economies flourished.
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Investors required too much from struggling businesses and Southern industries failed.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The North had an industrial economy, an economy focused on manufacturing, while the South had an agricultural economy, an economy focused on farming. Slaves worked on Southern plantations to farm crops, and Northerners would buy these crops to produce goods that they could sell.
Detailed explanation-2: -The northern economy relied on manufacturing and the agricultural southern economy depended on the production of cotton. The desire of southerners for unpaid workers to pick the valuable cotton strengthened their need for slavery.
Detailed explanation-3: -The North produced 17 times more cotton and woolen textiles than the South, 30 times more leather goods, 20 times more pig iron, and 32 times more firearms. The North produced 3, 200 firearms to every 100 produced in the South.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Northern economy boomed. They produced many types of goods. The southern economy collapsed. The labor system of slavery was gone and the industry and railroad destroyed.