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A Crushed Cotton Kingdom, page 451-452

The costs of the Civil War for the South were devastating:

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Personal income dropped from 2/3

of Northerners before the war to 2/5

the war’s end where it remained throughout the 1800s.

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Transportation collapsed.

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Materials ran out as everything metal was melted down into bullets and other

war materials.

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Cotton capitalism lost to industrial capitalism and resulted in high tariffs and

other policies that benefitted Northern manufacturers and hurt Southerners

for years after the end of the Civil War.

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