Answer:
Option: Was weakened.
Explanation:
The Union blockade in the Southern ports and harbours during the Civil War in America, created Georgia's economy to go weaker because it depended on the trade with foreign countries, especially Britain. Georgia provides a trade market where Cotton was traded with England for the industries to make cotton fabric. The blockade effect not only the trade but put restricted to the Confederate army by cutting their supplies.
Answer:
an epidemic of the "Spanish flu" struck the country
Explanation:
After World War I, the military force (United State's troops) was not necessary anymore, so they were sent home. As a result of this, a new strain of Influenza virus emerged. It was called "Flu Pandemic" or "Spanish Flu." Since there was no medication against it, many Americans fell ill and died, only in a span of months after the war. <u>The flu is said to have killed more Americans than in the World War I, thus it was considered the most devastating epidemic ever recorded in history.</u>
It was hard for people to live a normal life, since they needed to protect themselves against the flu. This affected the people's social life. They preferred staying home, rather than meeting new people. Whenever they go out, they needed to wear some masks for protection.
Answer:
During Reconstruction, many small white farmers, thrown into poverty by the war, entered into cotton production, a major change from prewar days when they concentrated on growing food for their own families.
Explanation:
Sharecropping dominated the cotton and tobacco South, while wage labor was the rule on sugar plantations.
