No, it was based on cash crop farming such as cotton, tabbaco, and blue dye before the Civil War started. The North started the Industrial Revolution and made tons of factories ,therefor, they needed cotton to make their items. The South started selling their cotton to the North ,even though the North thought that slavery was wrong, and ,therefor, the South making profit on cotton and slave work.
With over 300000 dead, a million wounded, her manufacturing and agricultural base destroyed, a hostile Yankee government and carpetbaggers arriving by by the tens of thousands, how could it not?
In the period lading up to the US Cvil War, the North had an emerging industrial economy. The South remained a plantation based agricultural economy with much less industrial capability than the North.
an agriculture economy overly dependent on cotton and slave labor.
the most important reasons for the English civil war to start was Money Power and Religion hope this helps please add to this answer if you have more to say :)
The South's economy was left devastated by the Civil War. Farming was less profitable. Infrastructure such as railroads needed to be repaired. At least a fourth of working-age white men were killed during the war, which cast many families into poverty.
The economy was based on the practice of slave-labour.
As the US Civil War unfolded, the economy of the Confederate states was based on agriculture. The main crops they farmed were cotton, tobacco and rice.
The American Civil War, widely known in the United States as simply the Civil War and established a naval blockade that crippled the southern economy.
The American Civil War, widely known in the United States as simply the Civil War and established a naval blockade that crippled the southern economy.
The American Civil War, widely known in the United States as simply the Civil War and established a naval blockade that crippled the southern economy.
The American Civil War, widely known in the United States as simply the Civil War and established a naval blockade that crippled the southern economy.
Before the civil war the north economy was based on agriculture. It was later based on the industrial revolution after the war.
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The economy was completely destroyed
The South (The Confederacy) was primarily an economy based on agriculture, which was hardput to finance a war. Further, the Union conducted a naval blockade of southern ports, preventing needed supplies from getting in.
They were bankrupt.
Prior to the US Civil War, the Southern economy was primarily based on its cotton crop. This was a major plus for the entire US economy in 1860 for example. Cotton was shipped to Europe and also to Northern textile mills.