How The South Affected After The Civil War?

After the Civil war, there was a time called the Reconstruction Period. This was a time where both the North and the South resituated after the war. In the North, not much changed after the war. Though while their industry progressed, they had lost thousands of men during the war. Also, very little property in the North was damaged so returning soldiers could go back to their farms or jobs. On the other hand, the South had lost many of their men and their slaves. Though the slaves were filled with joy because they were being set free, they did struggle because they had to integrate into Southern society, not Northern. Their labor force was completely destroyed. And in addition, unlike the North, the South had suffered severe property damage.
Though, the North and the South had different ideas of how to accomplish this goal. In the North, in order to overcome the black codes and aid the freedmen in the South, Republicans passed many bills. One of the bills increased the role of the Freedmen’s Bureau. This provided aid for the refugees. Another one was a constitutional amendment that gave blacks full citizenship. During the time of Reconstruction, many of the Southerners began sharecropping. This is when a farmer didn't have enough money to have his own land so he would grow his crops on someone else’s land and give a certain percent of money gained from the crops to the owner of the land. Also, the people in the South wanted to make industry big in the South. They spoke hopefully of a “New South” that would be equal, or possibly better than, the North’s industry. One of the biggest new features of the Southern industry was the mill town. In a mill town, the owner would normally build the workers’ housing. The housing was normally rows of similar houses and they were near factories or mills. Also, things like churches, schools, doctors’ offices, and company stores, where food and clothing were sold, were built. Also, lots of the children in the town had to work in the
As mentioned earlier, after the North won the Civil war, all the slaves were set free. Though this was good for the slaves, it was also bad because they had to integrate into Southern society, not the Northern. It would’ve been easy to do so in the North because the North was in good condition after the war but, the South was not. In the South even though, after the Civil War, the whites didn’t control the blacks, the blacks were still considered inferior when compared to the whites. New laws, called Black codes, were used by the southern states in order to control African Americans. Aslo, the South had a group called the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). The people in this group wanted black people under the control of the white people. This group especially targeted any blacks who had high power or position or were successful. By 1868, more than 1,300 freedman had been lynched. As stated earlier, in the South, many of the slaves had to sharecrop. Because the slaves were poor, they cannot afford their own land. So they would grow their crops on other people's land and have to pay them a certain amount of what they earned. On the other hand, the North tried to help the slaves once they had been freed. The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendment all helped the slaves settle integrate into the Southern society. The 13th Amendment is what helped the slaves be set free. The 14th Amendment said that