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Khan Academy: Ap Us History: 1865 1898: After the Civil War: The New South

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After the Civil War, there was some impetus to modernize the South's economy to make it more industrialized and less agrarian. It never gained traction while sharecropping and tenant farming did, ensuring the persistence of rural poverty. Includes questions for students at end.

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child labor, sharecropping

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child laborer, debt peonage, rural agrarian poverty, tenant farming, henry w. grady, khan academy: ap us history: 1865-1898: after the civil war: the new south, reconstruction of south, second industrial revolution, southern economy, end of reconstruction

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Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
The intended use for this resource is Instructional

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