Conditions in the South After the Civil War
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln. The Civil War brought social and economic changes to the South. For The Last Time The American Civil War Was Not About States Rights Quartz The South was a devastated land almost everything had been burned. . Before the war the Souths economy had been based almost strictly on agriculture mainly cotton tobacco and sugar and all these industries suffered especially cotton. Poverty was rampant and thousands of people were. What were the conditions of the South after the Civil War. State governments were corrupt or nonexistent and even after slaves were freed they were treated terribly. Its cotton exports had been drastically reduced its agricultural and industrial output declined sharply whilst much of its infrastructure was destroyed. This changed somewhat after the Civil War. Additionally many men had left for a number of years to fight for the Confederacy and many plantati...