RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
THE RECONSTRUCTION ERA
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Accept all races as equal under the law and under God
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Create an economy based more on industry
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Get African Americans to participate in government
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Rebuil the Agrarian economy the South had before the Civil War
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Detailed explanation-1: -Slave labor was the foundation of a prosperous economic system in the South. To illustrate just how important slaves were to that prosperity, Gerald Gunderson (1974) estimated what fraction of the income of a white person living in the South of 1860 was derived from the earnings of slaves.
Detailed explanation-2: -They worked in textile and lumber mills, metal works, print shops, and in marble and stone quarries. All of these industries grew at unprecedented rates in the decades following the Civil War.
Detailed explanation-3: -There was great wealth in the South, but it was primarily tied up in the slave economy. In 1860, the economic value of slaves in the United States exceeded the invested value of all of the nation’s railroads, factories, and banks combined.
Detailed explanation-4: -From Henry Grady to black leader Booker T. Washington, New South advocates wanted southern economic regeneration, sectional reconciliation, racial harmony, and believed in the gospel of work.