What happened to the economy of the south immediately after the civil war

Many railroads, farms and plantations, and even southern cities like Atlanta, Georgia and Richmond, Virginia were destroyed. After the war, Confederate money was worthless due to inflation and the value of them plummeting. In an attempt to the south went into "the Reconstruction" where the south tried to fix their economy and put their land back together. Many small white farmers, thrown into poverty by the war, entered into cotton production, which was a major change from only growing food for their own families. Sharecropping dominated the cotton and tobacco South, while wage labor was the rule on sugar plantations.

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