Life During Reconstruction

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Life During Reconstruction

Lincoln’s Legacy

Lee’s Legacy

Most of the battles of the Civil War had been fought in the South.

After the war, once-wealthy plantation owners were financially ruined. Confederate money is now worthless. Enslaved workers were now free.

Following the war, the cotton crop failed several years in a row… drought boll weevil

Slowly the South’s economy became more industrial Steel factories Saw mills

A solution to the no workers, no money problem

Tenants paid a portion of their crop as rent.

Review Why was it easier for the North’s economy to grow after the war? How did the South’s economy change after the war? How was sharecropping like slavery? How was it different?