Effects of the Civil War on Economies

Ever since the Civil War, economies were changed for the good and bad. North and South alike experienced these changes. The North had the greater amount of good changes throughout and after the war. The South had more of the negative effect on their economy. No matter what happened during the war to each of the economies separately, now, after the war, they would have to deal with them together as one country again. Throughout …

…and the South widened during the war and created a dependency for the South on the North. Now that the South’s economy had dived and the North’s had flourished, the US had to decide where their future was going and try to get industries to strive once again in the South without the use of slaves. The Civil War created a unity within a nation’s people but separated a countries economy forever.