How did the south's economy benefit from the end of reconstruction?

There was an increase in federal money for railroads and ports.

Explanation:

The American Civil War drained the financial resources of the North and completely ruined the economy of the South. The total cost of the war was 115 billion dollars. Great destruction occurred in the South because of the war. Countless factories, commercial establishments and residences were destroyed and fields were burned by the soldiers of the North. The world monopoly of southern cotton has been destroyed. Immediately after the war, there were great resentments and frictions between the population of the South and the North of the United States, which lasted for several generations. As a strategy to reunify the south of the country, the government decided to increase federal money for construction of railroads and ports in the southern states.

nothing certain is known about what happened, but it seems that the country declined gradually, perhaps due to bad government, or, more likely, due to a series of bad harvests, which resulted in widespread and recurrent famine.

pope john paul ii ( his real name is karol wojtyla) and lech walesa ( the leader of the solidarity movement ) were both born in poland.