By:

Robby Husbands,

Clay Willis,

&

Xavier Johnson

• 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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