As a whole, it would be the effect of the Union military victory in the Civil War. More specifically, it would be individual campaigns within the war, such as Sherman's March to the Sea, which devastated Georgia in late 1864.
Grant's policy of Total War, with Sheridan laying waste to the Shenandoah Valley and Sherman carrying out his punitive raids in Georgia.
Eventually the North, as the Southern farmlands and railroads were being destroyed, the Southern economy wrecked, and the Confederate troops in the field increasingly barefoot and starving.
The economy was completely destroyed
It strengthened the Southern economy and even made some Southern planterns rich,but it also made the demand for slave labor skyrocket.
Mobutu Sese Seko destroyed the economy of Zaire.
It strengthened U.S. labor unions.
Their economy was destroyed and thus began the Reconstruction Era, where things were promised yet never given.
They strengthened the economy and provided jobs .
a slow tranformation
what was the role of the factor in the southern economy
The South's economy was devastated after the US Civil War. As a summary statement, for a forty year period after the Civil War, the economy of the South was stagnated, and two thirds of its wealth was destroyed.
What was one of the most important differences between the northern economy and the southern economy? The northern economy was industrially based. The Southern economy was agriculturally based.