-Effects of the War on the South
- During the war, vast cotton fields are destroyed or left untended, taking away one of the South's main resources for money.
- The North destroys the livestock shelters and either leaves the livestock or killed it off.
- The South's agriculture is seriously dwindled.
-Reconstruction Begins
- Lincoln starts the Freedmen's Bureau, which allows slaves to have a certain amount of land and a mule to start their own lives.
- When Lincoln is asassinated, the Bureau is canceled by his successor, Andrew Johnson.
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