Farmers mastered irrigation early, providing more crops than they needed to support the population.
The main reason why the South was so upset by Lincoln’s election in 1860 is because he had made it clear that he was opposed to slavery, which was the primary driving force of the South's economy.
<span>The government was short on funds due to the war and had to borrow money.</span>
One of the main ways in which the XYZ Affair helped build the country's armed forces was that it brought the United States and France close to an armed conflict, which forced the US to prepare its military and military supplies.
The Ku Klux Klan initially began as a social club and was formed by Confederate veterans at the end of the Civil War in Tennessee in 1866. This was an offensive and racist response to the newly freed blacks who used to be salves in the southern states of the United States with the objective of intimidating the black population and to restore white supremacy using violent tactics. This initial group tried to keep the black people sacred and under their control specifically so they would not enter political life or seek positions of power or in government in the community, This group was eventually dismantled by its leader Forrest because of its excessive violence and because its members would attack, hit, whip, torture and even kill black people or their supporters in night attacks. It also stopped operating because its original aim, to restore white supremacy in government and positions of power was achieved and there was no need for such an organization to continue. In the 1920's the Klan was revived by a preacher in Atlanta , Georgia. The reasons for this were patriotism and a fear of growing immigration, a nostalgia for the old south way of life and ideas like the ones coming from the Russian revolution where religion lost power and the people took control. This new revival resulted in a racist and violent organization closed and rejecting new immigrants or new ideas who react with intolerance and violence to what they see as different.
