How did the us economy change in the years after the civil war

The economic lives of planters, former slaves, and nonslaveholding whites, were transformed after the Civil War. ... During Reconstruction, many small white farmers, thrown into poverty by the war, entered into cotton production, a major change from prewar days when they concentrated on growing food for their own families.

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