RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
THE RECONSTRUCTION ERA
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The South
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The North
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The East
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the West
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Detailed explanation-1: -As factories grew, the cottage industry died out and the factories were built in cities, especially near waterways. So, people moved from the rural areas into cities for work in the factories.
Detailed explanation-2: -The North produced 17 times more cotton and woolen textiles than the South, 30 times more leather goods, 20 times more pig iron, and 32 times more firearms. The North produced 3, 200 firearms to every 100 produced in the South.
Detailed explanation-3: -In the North, factories were springing up. In the South, plantations had developed.
Detailed explanation-4: -Richard Arkwright is the person credited with inventing the prototype of the modern factory. After he patented his water frame in 1769, he established Cromford Mill, in Derbyshire, England, significantly expanding the village of Cromford to accommodate the migrant workers new to the area.