How did the southern economy improve after reconstruction ended?

answer:

the economic lives of planters, former slaves, and nonslaveholding whites, were transformed after the civil war. during reconstruction, many small white farmers, thrown into poverty by the war, entered into cotton production, a major change from prewar days when they concentrated on growing food for their own families

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c. troops marched forward in close formation against newer, more accurate weapons

b. they tried to evict the squatters from the area.

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