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They didn't have much economic opportunity in the old South.
The Southern States were to organise conventions which had to amend their own constitutions so as to conform them with the Constitution of the United States, including the incorporation of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Southern plantations had been damaged during the war, and rice exports dropped sharply. Trade also fell off when the British closed the profitable West Indies (Caribbean) market to American merchants. What little money there was went to pay foreign debts, and a serious currency shortage resulted.
the largest antebellum southern industry was
they became part of new southern governments.
Encouraging new industries
take power from southern planters
take power from southern planters
take power away from the southern planters.
They didn't have much economic opportunity in the old South.
encouraging new industries
Cutting taxes for landowners
By the ex-confederate states in the south.
Southern planters.
The Northern merchants and the Southern planters
northern merchants and southern planters
Cutting taxes for landowners