Blockade running. Illegal cross-border trading. Printing more Confederate dollars, leading to ruinous inflation.
Also improvising an industrial base from scratch - with results that impressed even their enemies.
And... a lot of just going without. Stitching their own clothes. Rationing the food. (See the second half of 'Gone with the Wind'.)
Although the north had an economic advantage over the south due to the industries the north faced an economic problems because they did not have a home front advantage such as the south. Furthermore the south lacked two economic advantages. One was the central goverment which would not let them tax the states. And inflation occurred causing more problems including the unity of the states. -11th grader from APUSH
It create illman
The statement that correctly explains economic conditions in the South during the Civil War was that they were very poor and relied heavily on agriculture. This greatly contrasted the North which was more industry oriented.
south and west A far-reaching river system was an economic advantage for which sections of the US during its expansion and development?
Plantations, factories, and other businesses were destroyed during the war.
The Confederate States of America!
North
The Union naval blockade prevented them from exporting their plentiful cotton.
Although the north had an economic advantage over the south due to the industries the north faced an economic problems because they did not have a home front advantage such as the south. Furthermore the south lacked two economic advantages. One was the central goverment which would not let them tax the states. And inflation occurred causing more problems including the unity of the states. -11th grader from APUSH
fort sumter
The Union was the North - all the states that had not seceded.
sharecropping
True. But they also fought against state's rights, which as one of the major reasons the South fought.
It create illman
Major economic problems began to take hold in the 1870s.
As a economic issue
Most advantages, economic and otherwise, favored the North