what happend after the civle war?

Question

How the civil war affect the southern states!



The civil war affected the southern United States in many, many ways,
One way it affected the USA, it helped modernize the south.
After the war the Carpetbaggers came and helped clean up the mess after the war, they gave them: roads, factories, and school for education. Before the war the southerners had no way of transportation, but the carpetbaggers gave them cars and factories to build cars.
Because of all the factories in the south population in the south has started to increase.
Because of the population growth in the south, and all the factories, cars, and roads, the war turned out to be a good thing in the U.S.
Everything was better in the long run.

Answer 1

The South really recovered and grew DESPITE the Civil War rather than because of it. Industrialization helped the entire United States in the decades after the Civil War - though not all people truly benefited. The workers were not well paid for their labor. Factory owners made fortunes, but workers barely got by. This changed after the labor union movement starting late in the 1800s and the anti-trust /anti-monopoly legislation in the early 1900s under Teddy Roosevelt.

I am a Pennsylvania person who chose to live and work in the South. I'm not a true "Southerner", but I do recognize that the "carpetbaggers" who came to the South after the Civil War were not benefactors but were instead opportunists feeding on the the troubles of a destroyed economy. The Northern carpetbaggers "gave" nothing freely for the benefit of the South. They exploited for their own gain rather than built up the South with kindly intentions - for the most part.

We always need to be careful with generalizations. Not all Yankees were bad, but many carpetbaggers were greedy, self-serving men. Not all Southerners were righteous, God fearing, noble men. Southern planters were wrong about slavery - pure and simple. It was not morally defensible. There is plenty of blame to go around.

The bottom line is that the South did eventually recover remarkably in most areas as part of a growing, prosperous United States.

Added note - One reason that the South did finally attract factories is that labor unions were not as strong there. Labor unions in the north eventually were making so many demands - especially in the Pennsylvania town where I grew up - that factories would close up and move to the South where people would work for good wages without making excessive demands. There is a balance there - between labor and management. You have to look fairly at both sides of the equation.

Answer 2

I agree your teachers should be fired first off that gramatically constructed in a horrible way. Cars weren't invented as someone stated for over 20 years. Also the Carpetbaggers weren't well recieved in the South. The reconstruction as the period is calld, took a long time and was wrought with difficulty. This country still hasn't fully healed from the wounds of the Civil War. There are some in the Deep South who still hold to the notion that the South wil rise again, while they are in the minority it shows we haven't fully healed.

Answer 3

cars weren't invented for 20+ yrs after the civil war and the South was probably the last place to be industrialized with factories - farming was a lot more prevalent than manufacturing in the South - still is.

Answer 4

Your teachers should be fired.

Answer 5

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