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Compared to the South, very few problems faced the North after the Civil War. The Union had won the war. Businesses prospered. Veterans were returning to their homes and farms. Eventually, the economy had to absorb the returning veterans, so there was urban unemployment until many moved were to take advantage of the Homestead Act. There were periods of inflation, but the westward expansion provided opportunities for economic expansion. It is not until the 1870s when large influxes of European immigrants begin crowding into cities that the North begins to face real problems.

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