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What was the long-term economic outcome of the American Civil War?

African Americans in the South were given more social and political privileges in the late 1800s in order to help them toward prosperity

the Industrial Revolution was sped up and the US became an industrial power

slavery was re-instituted in the south in order to produce more raw goods

northerners sought to become more agriculturally based in their activities​

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Step-by-step explanation:

a smaller industrial base, fewer rail lines, and an agricultural economy based upon slave labor made mobilization of resources more difficult.

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