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Reconstruction Economics

Explore the economic, social, and environmental impacts of Reconstruction in the American South post-Civil War. Learn about the challenges faced, industrialization, sharecropping, and the long-lasting effects on the region's economy and environment.

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Reconstruction Economics

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  1. Reconstruction Economics Remember the history types? Cultural, social, political, military Economic and Environmental

  2. In 1865, the South was devastated Had No Food Had No Capital Had no Banking System or Money Had No Industry Had No Railroads 7% of Southern Males-Killed or Wounded (North-3%) 4 Million Slaves Had Been Freed with No Support

  3. Every white male between 15 and 50 was either killed or wounded. The largest budget item in several Southern states in 1866 and 1867 was artificial limbs. Many wounds never healed.

  4. Bogart GA, 1882

  5. Sharecropped Land, 1875

  6. Industrialization in the North

  7. Steel Production – 1875-1915 Billionaires - 1895

  8. Industrialization Transforms Business

  9. Cascade Effect of Inventions

  10. Circa 1895, Georgia

  11. The Bimetal Issue – or Free Silver

  12. The Election of 1896 – Populist Candidates William Jennings Bryan Tom Watson

  13. Eroded Cotton Land

  14. I see one third of the nation ill-housed, ill-clothed and ill-fed. Franklin D Roosevelt, 1937

  15. Circa 1922

  16. The Story of the Longleaf Pine

  17. Sharecropped Land, 1875

  18. Naval Stores and Turpentine

  19. Each barrel of distilled turpentine contains the lifetime supply of 33 virgin longleaf pine trees – net profit was about 32 cents per barrel. Savannah Dock – 1893

  20. From 1870 to 1930, nearly 130 Million acres of virgin longleaf forest were clearcut. Less than a million acres remain today.

  21. Longleaf forests are very difficult to regenerate and grow slowly. No one alive today will ever see a mature longleaf forest. Longleaf forests shelter one of the most diverse biosystems on earth. About 25% of the plants and animals on the endangered list are native to the longleaf forest. Essential question for your students: What is the worst environmental disaster in the nation’s history?

  22. Cotton – The Sequel Boll Weevil Enterprise AL

  23. Question: What is the only nation in modern times that the United States has conquered but not rebuilt after the war? Answer: The American South

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