Question

After the Civil War, the South had to reinvent its economy because

Answer 1

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Answer 2

The South had to reinvent its economy because the plantations had been destroyed.

• Everything that could have been useful to the Confederacy had been destroyed by the West along their route, including railroad tracks and plantations.
• The fields were destroyed by fire.
• The South today was a landscape of destroyed cities, destroyed plantations, and destroyed terrain.
• Sharecropping and tenant farming replaced slavery and the plantation system in the South after the Civil War.
• White landowners, who were frequently former plantation slave owners, engaged into agreements with destitute farmworkers to work their properties under sharecropping and tenant farming systems.
• The South's agricultural sector had to be totally reconstructed due to the abrupt loss of both manpower and capital.

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