Economic Developments: Agriculture in The South

Question 1

What did Reconstruction bring an end to?

Answer 1

Slavery

Question 2

What did Reconstruction fail to bring an end to?

Answer 2

The supremacy of the White Elite in The South

Question 3

What was the consequence of the Civil War for Southern Farmers?

Answer 3

Their land was likely heavily damaged

Question 4

What happened to land owned by smaller farmers as they could not afford to keep it?

Answer 4

It was sold to the elite in The South

Question 5

What did the more elite farmland owners do with the farmers who sold the land to them?

Answer 5

They made them into tenant farmers

Question 6

Where was one Trading Port in The South created to help the expansion to overseas markets?

Answer 6

Mobile, Alabama

Question 7

What happened in 1879 which resulted in the number of farmers in The South go down? Why did they do this?

Answer 7

Thousands of farmers emigrated to Kansas to search for better opportunities