Besides its economic devastation, the South had also been cracked hard in terms of politics and social structure. With the purpose of facilitating the unification of the North and the South, “issues about how to reinvolve the South in government” (How) have been argued endlessly. And measure like barring Southern Congressmen from the participating political activities in Congress with contempt had been taken, making the aristocracies be sheared of power. What’s more, the issue of the Emancipation Proclamation also sparked a sweeping social change. Slaves were regarded as “free man” according to the federal law approved by the President and legislation, although slavery had not been completely abolished in a short time. This proclamation
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At that time, the South was striving to walk out of the gloom of failed war. Experiencing a series of momentous social changes then, this region was caught off guard by a new wave of Industrial Revolution. In view of the fundamental differences of two types of economy exist in the country and the South’s faltering economy, it was all doom, then, for the South - industrialization was not very possible. To start with, as stated above, the South was an agrarian economy depended on black slave. The majority of labor force were engaged in agricultural plantation such as farming and cultivating in farms as well as fields. Thus, there were not so much factories comparing with the North where mixed economy supported by free labor was pursued, and so was the need for machines. Besides, the illiterate black slaves were not qualified to operate machines and work in an industrialized environment. Moreover, with the machines and techniques obtained, the North could just import raw material from the South and process by themselves, which on the contrary, made the South neglect the necessity of developing their own manufacture industry. As suggested above, instead of stimulating the Southern economy, the Industrial Revolution again weakened it and made it lag far behind the
At that time, the South was striving to walk out of the gloom of failed war. Experiencing a series of momentous social changes then, this region was caught off guard by a new wave of Industrial Revolution. In view of the fundamental differences of two types of economy exist in the country and the South’s faltering economy, it was all doom, then, for the South - industrialization was not very possible. To start with, as stated above, the South was an agrarian economy depended on black slave. The majority of labor force were engaged in agricultural plantation such as farming and cultivating in farms as well as fields. Thus, there were not so much factories comparing with the North where mixed economy supported by free labor was pursued, and so was the need for machines. Besides, the illiterate black slaves were not qualified to operate machines and work in an industrialized environment. Moreover, with the machines and techniques obtained, the North could just import raw material from the South and process by themselves, which on the contrary, made the South neglect the necessity of developing their own manufacture industry. As suggested above, instead of stimulating the Southern economy, the Industrial Revolution again weakened it and made it lag far behind the