<span>Planter families were quickly decimated during the Civil War. Union blockades prevented southern plantations from exporting cotton, tobacco, indigo and other major crop they grew. Also, most of the Civil War was fought in the South, with armies often plundering planter homes for supplies, along with freeing the slaves that made up much of their wealth. At the end of the war, the southern gentry/aristocracy that planter families made up was gone.</span>
As regards the claim that the Southern Economy expanded during the Civil War, this is False.
<h3>What happened to the Southern economy in the Civil War?</h3>
When war broke out, the North acted to deny the South its means of trading with other parts of the world.
This, coupled with the destruction the war brought, damaged the Southern economy and forced it to shrink instead of expand.
Find out more on the effects of the Civil War on the South at brainly.com/question/15784261.
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A. because the war lead to a large amount of debt
I think it was Benjamin Franklin
