RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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Question
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The South’s economy was strong because the war had helped its industries.
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large parts of the North were destroyed because of invasions by Lee’s army.
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Northern armies were doing very little damage to the South.
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parts of the South lay in ruins because of the North’s strategy of total war.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The strategy for the United States was to surround the territory of the South in the Anaconda Plan, blockading the Atlantic Ocean and controlling the Mississippi, to keep goods from going into or out of the South and forcing them to surrender.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Confederacy initially implemented a cordon strategy or cordon defense, meaning that it tried to defend the entire scope of the Confederacy, and soon had troops scattered from Virginia to Texas. Politically, Confederate president Jefferson Davis had little choice but to do this.
Detailed explanation-3: -This strategy was intended to demoralize the Confederates and destroy their infrastructure so that neither the soldiers nor the civilians had the supplies to mobilize for the war effort.