theamericanparlor: “Richmond, Va. Crippled locomotive, Richmond & Petersburg Railroad
theamericanparlor: “Richmond, Va. Crippled locomotive, Richmond & Petersburg Railroad depot,” c. 1865 War brought destruction across the South. Governmental and private buildings, communication systems, the economy, and transportation infrastructure were all debilitated. Victory did not translate into a quick economic boom for the United States. The North would not regain its prewar pace of industrial and commodity output until the 1870s. The war did prove beneficial to northern farmers, who responded to wartime labor shortages with greater use of mechanical reapers, which boosted yields. By 1870 all the former Confederate states had been readmitted to the Union, and nearly all were controlled by the Republican Party. Three groups made up Southern Republicanism. Carpetbaggers, or recent arrivals from the North, were former Union soldiers, teachers, Freedmen’s Bureau agents, and businessmen. The second large group,scalawags, or native-born white Republicans, included some businessmen and planters, but most were non slaveholding small farmers from the Southern up-country. Loyal to the Union during the Civil War, they saw the Republican Party as a means of keeping Confederates from regaining power in the South. https://www.britannica.com/event/Reconstruction-United-States-history -- source link
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