Curated OER
Cotton Pickin' Before and After the Civil War
Students explore the impact of cotton. In this economics lesson, students listen to a lecture presented by their instructor on the Southern crop of cotton and its impact on the South prior to and following the Civil War. Students...
Other
Encyclopedia of Arkansas: Carpetbaggers and Scalawags
An even-handed description of carpetbaggers and scalawags, particularly in regard to their beneficial activities in Arkansas.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Ap Us History: 1865 1898: After the Civil War: The New South
After the Civil War, there was some impetus to modernize the South's economy to make it more industrialized and less agrarian. It never gained traction while sharecropping and tenant farming did, ensuring the persistence of rural...
American Battlefield Trust
American Battlefield Trust: Civil War: North and South: Different Cultures, Same Country
The Civil War that raged across the nation from 1861 to 1865 was the violent conclusion to decades of diversification. Gradually, throughout the beginning of the nineteenth century, the North and South followed different paths,...