RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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The South experienced economic growth as it switched from an economy based on farming to one based on manufacturing.
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The South experienced economic growth as former slaves were able to start farming and sell cotton and tobacco.
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The South experienced an economic depression as the federal government confiscated land and redistributed it.
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The South experienced an economic depression as it struggled to adjust to the end of the plantation system.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The aftermath of the war left portions of the Confederacy in ruins, and with little or no money to rebuild. State governments were mired in debt, and white planters, who had most of their capital tied up in slaves, lost most of their wealth.
Detailed explanation-2: -Southern agriculture gradually changed and improved. New methods of farming allowed people in the South to raise larger crops. Northerners invested large sums of money to build railroads and factories in the South. As a result, people began moving from the farms to the cities looking for jobs.
Detailed explanation-3: -In the decades following the Civil War, the United States emerged as an industrial giant. Old industries expanded and many new ones, including petroleum refining, steel manufacturing, and electrical power, emerged.
Detailed explanation-4: -The financial panic of 1873 and the subsequent economic depression helped bring Reconstruction to a formal end. Across the country, but especially in the South business failures, unemployment, and tightening credit heightened class and racial tensions and generated demands for government retrenchment.