1. Economies of the North and South Zephren Collinson

2. Before Civil War ●Soil favored small farmsteads ●Industry and manufacturing ●Immigrant labor ●Urban ●Railroads ●Economy booming Northern Economy After Civil War ●Economic growth from war ●Fluctuating money ●Little reconstruction ●Technology and manufacturing ●Government in some debt ●High tariffs on imports

3. Before Civil War ●“Antebellum South” ●Slavery ●Large Plantations ●Cash Crops ●No economic diversity ●Few exports ●Extreme stratification ●Low taxes ●Bad education and transportation After Civil War ●Reconstruction ●New labor force ●Sharecropping - tobacco ●Wage Labor - sugar ●“Forty acres and a mule” ●Small landowners - cotton ●Cycle of loans and debt ●Black Codes ●Freedmen's Bureau Southern Economy

4. Economy Pictures

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