The South had always been less enthusiastic about the railroad industry than the North; its citizens preferred an agrarian living and left the mechanical jobs to men from the Northern states. The railroads existed, they believed, solely to get cotton to the ports.
This is false. Subsistence farming is <em>only</em> <em />for ones single use, and not for trade.
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Significance of 1876 election was that it ended Reconstruction.
