The native Americans who lived there drove them out of their land or they never knew that South Carolina existed(I’m probably wrong try googling it.)
After the war, Kennedy represented the Massachusetts's 11th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1947 to 1953. He was subsequently elected to the U.S. Senate and served as the junior Senator from Massachusetts from 1953 to 1960.
Lincolns reconstruction plan was to offer the south and all former confederate's amenity or pardon. His plan also stated that southern states if having a 10% vote from it's citizens would be reimbursed into the union and a new constitution written for that state. Unlike the radical Republicans Reconstruction plan. Lincoln wanted them to rejoin the union as quickly as possible. johnsons plan took up the threads where lincoln took off. Johnson's plan was similar to lincolns but pleased congress and the radical republicans because President Johnson started sofisticating land from the wealthy aristrocratic Southerners. Hope that helped.
A lack of railroads affected a lot of things. For example like getting supplies or not having job opportunities due to not having a railroad. Also without have a railroad it made traveling harder.