After the Civil War, why did the South have to reinvent its economy?
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The south was destroyed after the war because the battles deeply destructed the towns. The South building itself back up was a whole period called the reconstruction period.
they had to reinvent their economy because General Shermans tactic of total war. when he did total war, he marched from the north all the way to Atlanta, Georgia and destroyed anything that couldn't be used as food or supplies. so they had to reinvent their economy because the south was totally destroyed
After the Civil War, the South had to reinvent its economy due to widespread destruction of infrastructure, a dependency on cotton, and the emergence of sharecropping. The need for economic diversification led to calls for a 'New South' that included industrialization and a variety of agricultural products. Reconstruction efforts aimed to help the South rejoin the Union, but many areas struggled to overcome poverty and dependency on agriculture.
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