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.
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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.