RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
LIFE IN THE SOUTH AFTER THE CIVIL WAR
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because the Confederacy lost so many more soldiers than the Union
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because Abraham Lincoln made the defeated Confederacy give all its money to the Union
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because the Union lost so many more soldiers than the Confederacy
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because most battles were fought in the South, so damage there was much worse
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Detailed explanation-1: -As an agricultural region, the South had more difficulty than the North in manufacturing needed goods–for both its soldiers and its civilians. One result was that Southern civilians probably had to make more real sacrifices during the war than Northern civilians did.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -The Union’s industrial and economic capacity soared during the war as the North continued its rapid industrialization to suppress the rebellion. In the South, a smaller industrial base, fewer rail lines, and an agricultural economy based upon slave labor made mobilization of resources more difficult.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.