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Textiles, tobacco, furniture, and steel
- Along with new transportation networks, New South boosters continued to promote industrial growth. The region witnessed the rise of various manufacturing industries, predominantly textiles, tobacco, furniture, and steel.
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In the South, a smaller industrial base, fewer rail lines, and an agricultural economy based upon slave labor made mobilization of resources more difficult. As the war dragged on, the Union's advantages in factories, railroads, and manpower put the Confederacy at a great disadvantage.
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[MUSIC PLAYING] MAN: After the Civil War, a group of influential Southerners promised that a new South would rise, complete with new industries, factories, and railroad lines. The New South was a propaganda term developed by boosters who wanted to insist that the South had put the old days of slavery behind it, that racial harmony was reigning.
Before the war, the Southern economy was based on agriculture, with very little industry. As the war progressed, some industrialization increased in the South, but by the end of the war, any Southern industry was destroyed. This would all have to be rebuilt in the aftermath of the war.
Dec 19, 2008 · Virginians owned the most slaves out of any state, with a total of 490,865 slaves. There were no large-scale industrial cities in the South as there were in the North. The only cities that could compare to the smallest Northern cities were New Orleans, Richmond, Charleston, Atlanta, and Mobile.
Jun 18, 2010 · Powder and Munitions. In the spring of 1861 men throughout the Confederacy were ready to fight; Southern industry, though, was not ready to supply them. Gunpowder was especially scarce, and the Confederate states held stockpiles barely adequate to outfit their recently raised armies.
Structural break tests show that Southern capital intensive industries grew much faster than Southern non-capital intensive sector as well as Northern capital intensive industries following the end of Reconstruction.
