scalawags
Before the Civil War the North was the more industrialized region, and this continued after the war. The North became more urban. The South, where most of the fighting occurred, slowly reconstructed itself in the face of Northern economic and political discrimination, and adopted an almost-feudal agricultural economy consisting of small farmers, share croppers and tenant farmers.
Farmers diversified their crops
American civil war slavery in the u.s. American civil war slavery in the u.s.
They grew cash crops.
scalawags
farmers
Farmers
Farmers diversified their crops
At the time of the Civil War, the majority of people in the south (and the midwest) were farmers.
Before the Civil War the North was the more industrialized region, and this continued after the war. The North became more urban. The South, where most of the fighting occurred, slowly reconstructed itself in the face of Northern economic and political discrimination, and adopted an almost-feudal agricultural economy consisting of small farmers, share croppers and tenant farmers.
After the Civil War, the farmers debt increased. The reason for this is because the crop prices went way too low.
the Grange
The grange
Farmers diversified their crops
they were potato farmers!
farmers