1. SOUTHERN ECONOMY
-economy was totally destroyed
-currency worthless
-no transportation system
-no gov’t authority
-loss of slave labor
-growth of gov’t to provide public services

2. LANDOWNERS
-plantation owners hardest hit
Slaves gone
Crops destroyed
Fortunes lost
Homes looted
-some radicals thought land should be divided to slaves as payment for slavery
-but land was never given to slaves

3. AFTER SLAVERY
-many slaves left the plantations
-looked for missing family
-others simply moved to new areas
-most did not have the money to buy any land

4. PLANTATIONS RESTORED
-many of the poor could not leave
-tenant farming
-sharecroppers
-the absent idea of “40 acres and a mule”
-cotton is no longer king

5. FREEDMAN’S BUREAU -created to help former slaves adjust
-provided education and schooling
-helped former slaves find work
-was never able to really help most former slaves
-land reform was most basic need of former slaves