They were segregated and had hard times finding jobs and when they did manage to get them, it was mostly low-skilled low-paying physical jobs like carrying bags of cement or loading ships in the docks. When the great depression came, they lost even this because white workers were prepared to do even those jobs so they lost even the little wage that they had.
Some long-term effects that occurred after the Civil War were the abolishment of slavery, the formation of blacks' rights, industrialization and new innovations. The Northern states were not reliant on plantations and farms; instead they were reliant on industr
