• The pre-Civil War economy
• Words to Know
• After the Civil War
• The new industries
• Sharecropping and tenant farming
• Booker T. Washington and the Tuskegee Institute
• The African American Migration North
• Southern Alliance
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In the period before the American Civil War (1861–65; a war between the Union [the North], who were opposed to slavery, and the Confederacy [the South], who were in favor of slavery), the South had remained a largely rural society, reliant for the most part on one crop, cotton, which was by far...