It created a societal dichotemy of having part of the new nation more in synch with the ideals enshrirend in the key founding documents and compromising the ideals in permitting (protecting) powerful economic interests in the southern half.
helping the south become a manufacturing region
Sharecropping and Tenant farming were two systems that replaced the plantation system in the south after the Civil War.
labor shortages, slavery and cash crops led to the development of the Plantation system.
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The South
Slaves of the south were busy, hard workers of the white south plantation owners. In other words, slaves are used to help the white plantation owners do farming work in the fields all day from morning to the dawn. They were often beated with whips if they disobeyed.
Sharecropping and Tenant farming were two systems that replaced the plantation system in the south after the Civil War.
labor shortages, slavery and cash crops led to the development of the Plantation system.
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Sharecropping replaced the plantation system in the South after the Civil War as a way for freed slaves and poor whites to work the land they previously worked as slaves. Under this system, laborers rented land and resources from landowners in exchange for a share of the crops produced, allowing for some autonomy but also perpetuating cycles of debt and poverty.
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The South
The south had become to dependant on the plantation system.
The South
The South
There were indeed stark social differences between the North and the South in the years leading up to the American Civil War. The South was an agrarian society that largely relied on slave labor and a plantation system to drive its economy. ... Unlike the South, the North had a larger urban...
The plantation system ended. Because there were no longer slaves to work on the plantations, Southern farmers had to find new sources of agricultural labor
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