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The Thirteenth Amendment (1865) ended slavery, and slavery’s end meant newfound freedom for African Americans.
During the period of Reconstruction, some 2000 African Americans held government jobs.
The black family, the black church, and education were central elements in the lives of post-emancipation African Americans.
Many African Americans lived in desperate rural poverty across the South in the decades following the Civil War.
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Overproduction of crops occurred in part due to the westward expansion of homestead farms and in part because industrialization led to new farm tools that dramatically increased crop yields. As farmers fell deeper into debt, whether it be to the local stores where they bought supplies or to the railroads that shipped their produce, their response was to increase crop production each year in the hope of earning more money with which to pay back their debt. The more they produced, the lower prices dropped. To a hard-working farmer, the notion that their own overproduction was the greatest contributing factor to their debt was a completely foreign concept.
