Question

Describe how did the Reconstruction affect the daily lives of Plantation owners

Answer 1

Reconstruction policy had little economic impact on the South’s recovery from the devastation of the Civil War • The economy continued to rest on agriculture and cotton, but now depended on sharecropping rather than slave labor • The national government did not see its role as taking an active hand in managing the economy until the 20th century and so the national government did not rebuild the war-torn region economically. • The South remained in a state of economic depression well into the 20th century