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Survival. How to grow enough food to feed themselves and the troops. How to improvise a manufacturing base to provide weapons and other war supplies.
Huge amounts of it were grown and most of the economy of the south was from money made from selling it. Sugar cane was also an important source of income.
What was the main crops in the south during 1820 and 1865?
Cotton was the main cash crop of the South during the Reconstruction Era.