The economy was based on the practice of slave-labour.
The economy was completely destroyed
The American Civil War, widely known in the United States as simply the Civil War and established a naval blockade that crippled the southern economy.
The American Civil War, widely known in the United States as simply the Civil War and established a naval blockade that crippled the southern economy.
The leading differences between the North and the South leading towards the US Civil War was their respective economies. The North was rapidly expanding manufacturing while the South was primarily an agricultural economy. Also, the Southern economy was driven by slaves. For the most part the North had few slaves at all.
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.
Leading up to the Civil War the southern states could accurately be described as federalist.
The economy was completely destroyed
They were bankrupt.
The American Civil War, widely known in the United States as simply the Civil War and established a naval blockade that crippled the southern economy.
The American Civil War, widely known in the United States as simply the Civil War and established a naval blockade that crippled the southern economy.
The American Civil War, widely known in the United States as simply the Civil War and established a naval blockade that crippled the southern economy.
The American Civil War, widely known in the United States as simply the Civil War and established a naval blockade that crippled the southern economy.
The agricultural status of the Southern states was extremely high. Over 80% of the South's economy came from agriculture. Whilst industrially, it was in the dumps, while the North's industrial economy was boosting. That was a huge disadvantage for the South during the civil war.
As the US Civil War unfolded, the economy of the Confederate states was based on agriculture. The main crops they farmed were cotton, tobacco and rice.
During the Civil War, the Confederacy tried to secede from the Union.
The main industry in the Southern States was farming. The most prevalent crops were cotton and tobacco. The Southern States, before the Civil War, sold these crops to the Northern States and in European markets.
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