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BlakeNo, 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.
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Changes in the Southern Economy after the Civil War?
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?
How were the economies of he north and south different before the civil war?
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.
Which best describes the economy of the South in the years leading up to the Civil War?
an agriculture economy overly dependent on cotton and slave labor.
What are the most important reasons why the english civil war started?
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 :)
How would you describe the South's postwar economy?
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.
