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As the North industrialized rapidly between 1820 and 1860, railroads helped create --and prospered from -- the rise of factory production and diversified large-scale agriculture. In the South, railroads played a marginal role in the cotton and tobacco economy.
<span>Although African Americans received their freedom as a result of the civil war, it didn't guarantee them all the rights that should have come with freedom. A study of the Civil Rights Movement that started during the Reconstruction Period following the war, and that continues today shows that many factors hindered blacks from exercising all of their rights. Many rights were still denied to blacks, such as the right to vote, and they were denied access by state and cities laws and ordinances to many freedom that most people take for granted.</span>
