By:
Robby Husbands,
Clay Willis,
&
Xavier Johnson
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Transformed economy
North started getting industrial
South farmed cotton
Both North and South went through reconstruction
Changed social interaction between people
Whites segregated black people
Groups formed such as the KKK or Klu Klux Klan
North
• Positive
• Slavery was
demolished
• Economy strived
• Factories created
more jobs
South
• Negative
• Left towns in ruins
• Destroyed farms,
factories and many
roads
• Economy did not work
• Farms relied on slave
labor
• Not enough labor
• Left 4,000,000 people
without homes, jobs, and
food
Good
• Got Rights
• Got Freed
• They were able to try
and reunited with their
families
• They did not get abused
anymore
• Could start own farms
Bad
• Segregated
• No money to do what
they wanted
• No food, shelter, or jobs
• Whites got better
education
• Did not have enough
money to start own
farms
• Did not have an
education
Good
• Whites got better
treatment then black
people
• Better public
facilities
• The Cotton Gin
• Factories create jobs
• Better schools
• Better Jobs
Bad
• Bad things were
mainly in the south
• No more slaves
meant less money
• Do own farm labor
or pay for the farm
labor
Important Vocabulary
• Industrial-having many highly industries
• Segregated- having racist bias against once
race.
• Depression-a period when there is world
wide economic depression and mass
unemployment
• There were racial
groups in the time
• These groups did all
they could to lessen
the rights of blacks
• They also tortured
them and mocked
them
• They wanted to show
that whites were still
the superior race at
the time
• The KKK was a
main black hating
group
• They shot at blacks,
burned their house,
and lynched black
families
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