RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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that the South would industrialize
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that the South would become egalitarian
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that the South would accept Northern help
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that the South would remain agrarian
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Detailed explanation-1: -In 1860, the South was still predominantly agricultural, highly dependent upon the sale of staples to a world market. By 1815, cotton was the most valuable export in the United States; by 1840, it was worth more than all other exports combined.
Detailed explanation-2: -Henry W. Grady, a newspaper editor in Atlanta, Georgia, coined the phrase the “New South” in 1874. He urged the South to abandon its longstanding agrarian economy for a modern economy grounded in factories, mines, and mills.
Detailed explanation-3: -In the post-World War II era, American textiles makers and other light industries moved en masse to the South, to capitalize on low wages, social conservatism, and anti-union sentiments. With the industrialization of the South came economic change, migration, immigration and population growth.
Detailed explanation-4: -There were three main areas of industrial advancement in the South-cotton milling, iron production and manufacturing, and the tobacco industry. But first it was necessary to rebuild the transportation and communication systems that had been destroyed during the Civil War.