Blockade-running and a certain amount of highly illegal cross-border trading with the North.
Otherwise, it was an improvised economy, based on some hasty building of factories, and all dependent on the dwindling Confederate dollar.
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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.