RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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Many plantation owners were without jobs as a result of the factories being burned.
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Millions of freed slaves needed housing, education, clothing, food, and jobs.
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All of the banks were closed because Confederate money had no value.
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Many railroads, bridges, plantations, and crops were destroyed.
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Detailed explanation-1: -After the Civil War, sharecropping and tenant farming took the place of slavery and the plantation system in the South. Sharecropping and tenant farming were systems in which white landlords (often former plantation slaveowners) entered into contracts with impoverished farm laborers to work their lands.
Detailed explanation-2: -Plantation owners were at the top of Virginian society in the antebellum period due to their wealth, cash crops, employment, and land ownership which meant that their interests were a major factor in politics.
Detailed explanation-3: -Tobacco profits helped to buy indentured servants and slaves. They also were used to pay local taxes and buy manufactured goods from England. With relatively cheap labor, increasing demand and a system of regulation the colonial plantation system was born.
Detailed explanation-4: -Most plantation owners took an active part in the operations of the business. Surely they found time for leisurely activities like hunting, but on a daily basis they worked as well. The distance from one plantation to the next proved to be isolating, with consequences even for the richest class.