It is TRUE that by the mid-1800s, cotton, sugarcane, and rice were the main crops in the Deep South.
During this period, the major economic source is known as the southern states in the U.S is agriculture. The major crops that are usually cultivated and harvested were sugarcane, cotton, rice, tobacco, and indigo. These crosses were exported to European countries.
Andrew Johnson gave the white South a free hand in regulating the transition from slavery to freedom and offered no role to blacks in the politics of the South.
