You should add an image and or choices to get the most accurate answer.
P.S thats also why people haven't answered but after you make that change you will get some answers. Have a great day! :)
The Democratic Party asserted dominance in the South after the Compromise of 1877 which effectively ended the Reconstruction and the Republican rule in the South. The promises the Democrats made, to protect and respect the rights of the African American people were not kept and through a series of Jim Crow laws they tried to maintain the control over the black population.
<span>Their economy was based on trading, lumbering,fishing, whaling, shipping, fur trading (forest animals) and ship building.</span>