Civil War 7

After the Civil War ended in 1865, the south was in total ruins. Houses were destroyed, crops were gone, and lives would never be the same again. It wouldn’t be until years after the war that people would get their lives back on track. Whites in the south now hated the blacks and still think they are inferior. The process of rebuilding that followed the American Civil War was known as reconstruction. The war left …showed first 75 words of 637 total…

…showed last 75 words of 637 total…do all their dirty work without getting paid, so you can keep all the profit. Some southerners were still farmers, but they had to work much more. Directly after the war, money had little to no value at all. The southerners had a big affect on present day American society. The southerners back then influenced us with their farming techniques, and even today the south has the biggest and best farmlands in the whole country.