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Potato asked in Arts & HumanitiesHistory · 8 years ago

What are 3 important problems that the south faced after the civil war?

What are 3 of the important problems facing the South after the Civil War?

How did people try to solve those problems?

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  • 8 years ago
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    Trashed economy

    Radical Republicans in the North had political control of the South

    Federal troops kept the Republicans in control over ex Confederates states by force.

    Return to cotton growing through sharecropping

    the KKK intimidated blacks to prevent them from voting

    Made a bargain with Hayes in 1876 so he could become President;in return,Hayes withdrew Federal troops.

  • 8 years ago

    1. How to get the Yankees out.

    2. How to keep the former slaves subjugated and ignorant.

    3. How to keep the poor whites ignorant.

    Time took care of #1, the Yankees left after 1877.

    The Ku Klux Klan took care of #2.

    The poor whites volunteered to keep themselves ignorant and took care of #3.

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