Title: Social Changes after the Civil War - 1147 Words | 123 Help Me
Headings: Social Changes after the Civil War
Social Changes after the Civil War
Content: They wanted economic freedom, the ability to buy and sell, and the ability to own their own businesses. White southerners on the other wanted economic restoration as opposed to newly freed slaves who wanted rudimentary financial freedoms; freedoms that they had never possessed. White southerners wanted the restoration of their labor force, restoration of their land which had largely been destroyed by the Civil War. White's also wanted political power, but it was more about the maintenance of...
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...on. It was a time in American history that one could describe as “one step forward, two steps back”. We won a huge political battle; the abolition of slavery. At the same time, we were faced with the growing labor issues in the North, as industrialization changed the face of labor. The Union won the war on a physical and practical level but failed to change its root cause.