How Did African Americans Led Up To Industrialization

At the end of the Civil War, America went from a Cash Crop System, where money was made by farming, to Industrialization. Cotton and tobacco was grown in southern states by landowners who owned slaves. After the Civil War and the freeing of slaves, landowners rented out their property to African Americans and poor whites to farm. Doing this caused the new farmers to be indebted to the landlords who became richer. As for the more northern parts of the south, people switched to commercial farming. With the use of modern machinery and railroads, it allowed easier ways of transporting food across the nation and more money for the owners. Because the South was rural, it took until the 1900's to make progress with industrialization. The rest of America was growing faster than at any other time in history up to that point. "In the year 1877, the signals were given for the rest of the century: the black would be put back; the strikes of white workers would not be tolerated; the industrial and political elites of the North and South would take hold of the country and
This meant stealing Native Americans' land, killing off food supplies, and massacring them when they resisted. Native Americans lived on land that had many resources that the government wanted and needed to move forward with industrialization. Gold, silver, copper, coal, oil, land, lumber, steel, crops, livestock, and the railroads was to be built to move everything across the country. Many treaties were signed between the Native Americans and the government. The government continuously lied and broke treaties with many tribes. They were put on small reservations and when the government found out there was oil on that land they wanted it too. The Dawes Act downsized Native American land to 160-acre allotments. If the Native Americans decided not to take the allotments, the government sold them to white