Mountainous dry summers and cool winters. Fertile enough soil to harbour cities a few forested area and plains but mostly hills and mountains.
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Why did new industries develop in the South during Reconstruction? During the war, Union soldiers destroyed crops and plantations in the South. The South needed to develop new industries that no longer relied on slave labor, and hoped to diversify and revitalize its economy following the war.
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At the onset on the war, in 1861 and 1862, they stood as relatively equal combatants. The Confederates had the advantage of being able to wage a defensive war, rather than an offensive one. They had to protect and preserve their new boundaries, but they did not have to be the aggressors against the Union.
