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Essay Archive - Reconstruction in the South
Reconstruction in the South
This essay will describe the events that occurred following the Civil
War in a period known as Reconstruction. In the South, during this period of
time many people suffered from the great amount of property damage done to such
things as farms, factories, railroads and several other things that citizens
depended on to keep their economy strong. Some of these economic hardships
included destruction of the credit system and worthless Confederate money.
Though statistics in the South were vague the historian E.B. Long, a careful
student of war strengths suggests “perhaps 750,000 individu....
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