1.The results of the Civil War contributed significantly to the rise of social and economic exploitation (labor, agriculture and industry) in the latter 1800’s.

The results of the Civil War contributed significantly to the rise of social and economic exploitation in the latter half of the 1800 's is a false statement . True the civil war scarred the southern landscape and wrecked its economy . One of the devastated areas was central South Carolina . Other areas the armies ' passes through were similarly ravaged . Several major cities including Atlanta , Columbia , and Richmond were gutted by fire . Most factories were dismantled or destroyed and long stretches of railroad were torn up . Physical ruin would not have been so disastrous

if investment capital had been available for rebuilding . But the substantial wealth represented by Confederate currency and bonds had melted away and emancipation of the slaves had divested the propertied classes of their most valuable and productive assets . According to some estimates the South 's per capita wealth in 1865 was only about half what it had been in 1860 (Larson , 2005

Recovery could not even begin until a new labor system replaced slavery . It was widely assumed in both the North and the South that southern prosperity would continue to depend on cotton and that the plantation was the most efficient unit for producing the crop . But rebuilding the plantation economy was hurt by lack of capital and by the deep rooted belief of southern whites that blacks would work only under compulsion , and by the freedmen 's resistance to labor conditions that recalled slavery . Blacks strongly to be small independent farmers rather than plantation laborers and for a time they had reason to hope that the federal government would support their ambitions General Sherman , hampered by the huge numbers of black fugitives that followed his army on its famous march , issued an in January 1865 that set aside the islands and coastal areas of Georgia and South Carolina for exclusive black occupancy on forty acres plots . By June 1865 , forty thousand black farmers were at work on three hundred thousand acres of what they thought would be their own land (Ransom 1989

But the dream was not realized . The president pardoned the land owners of most of the land that was given to the ex-slaves . Consequently most blacks in physical possession of small farms failed to get title Despite their poverty and landlessness ex-slaves were reluctant to settle down and commit themselves to wage labor for their former masters . So many took to the roads causing a huge migration shift north to where the factories were . Everyone agreed that the Constitution placed limits on what the national government could do and questions would continue to arise about where federal authority ended and states rights began . A broadened definition of federal powers had its greatest impact in the realm of economic policy (O 'Rourke , 2002

During the war , Republican dominated Congress passed a rash of legislation designed to give encouragement and direction to the nation 's economic development . Encouragement of settlement in the West by providing free land to settlers , gave huge tracts of public...