1. Life During Reconstruction

2. Lincoln’s Legacy

3. Lee’s Legacy

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

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

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

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

8. A solution to the no workers, no money problem

9. Tenants paid a portion of their crop as rent.

10. 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?