Post-Civil War America, also known as the Reconstruction Era deals with all the changes of America after the civil war; economically, socially, and legally. The value of manufactured products decreased in the South after the Civil War. This affected the economy since the major economic source before the Civil War depended mostly on cotton fields in the South. With new laws, racism flourished. Even though Blacks were no longer slaves, they definitely didn’t have the same rights as white people. This issue goes into the social changes in the Reconstruction Era. America thinks it has “solved” some problems with this war but other problems keep coming up. They haven’t gotten down to the root of the racial problems. The war just left the losing
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The South had fertile land and rich soil. Their farming relied mostly on slavery. Slaves helped picked cotton in cotton fields. The farming and agriculture in the South also relied mostly on slavery. Without slaves, the south was left with no laborers, and no one to make cotton- their main economic source. Now the South was in was in a struggle to either find new “slaves” or adjust to another form of making money. Based on the map, almost all the Southern states’ value of products decreased. Even though almost all Southern States decreased in manufactured products, almost all states increased in value of farms. In Illinois, the value of farms in 1860 before the Civil War was $408.9 million and after the Civil War in 1870, the value of farms rose to $920.5 million. Capitalism also emerged in the South. Private individuals and companies, rather than the state owned farms and factories. W.E.B. Du came to Atlanta University and saw that the Blacks were betrayed. He claims that all poor white and blacks were all used by politics and business. The growth of American Capitalism meant that white people were also being used and …show more content…
Before the Civil War, the South made most of their money off of their laborers and slaves working in cotton fields and their production of cotton. After the Civil War, the South lost their slaves and were no longer able to thrive in that area. Their economics dropped. Socially, even though Blacks were no longer enslaved, they didn’t have the same rights as white people. They weren’t able to get land of their own. The Jim Crow Laws enforced the racial discrimination and separation even more. The Civil War didn’t make the inequality better, even though slavery has stopped, this war made America fight against each other and that leaves the country in even a bigger mess than it was before. Instead of working together as “united states”, America shattered itself into halves and started basically killing their own people. The Civil War mainly left a negative effect to
The South had fertile land and rich soil. Their farming relied mostly on slavery. Slaves helped picked cotton in cotton fields. The farming and agriculture in the South also relied mostly on slavery. Without slaves, the south was left with no laborers, and no one to make cotton- their main economic source. Now the South was in was in a struggle to either find new “slaves” or adjust to another form of making money. Based on the map, almost all the Southern states’ value of products decreased. Even though almost all Southern States decreased in manufactured products, almost all states increased in value of farms. In Illinois, the value of farms in 1860 before the Civil War was $408.9 million and after the Civil War in 1870, the value of farms rose to $920.5 million. Capitalism also emerged in the South. Private individuals and companies, rather than the state owned farms and factories. W.E.B. Du came to Atlanta University and saw that the Blacks were betrayed. He claims that all poor white and blacks were all used by politics and business. The growth of American Capitalism meant that white people were also being used and …show more content…
Before the Civil War, the South made most of their money off of their laborers and slaves working in cotton fields and their production of cotton. After the Civil War, the South lost their slaves and were no longer able to thrive in that area. Their economics dropped. Socially, even though Blacks were no longer enslaved, they didn’t have the same rights as white people. They weren’t able to get land of their own. The Jim Crow Laws enforced the racial discrimination and separation even more. The Civil War didn’t make the inequality better, even though slavery has stopped, this war made America fight against each other and that leaves the country in even a bigger mess than it was before. Instead of working together as “united states”, America shattered itself into halves and started basically killing their own people. The Civil War mainly left a negative effect to