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The purpose of reconstruction was to reunite the country and to build a southern society not based on slavery. True or false

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Answer:truth

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Cotton is king. By the mid-19th century, southern commercial centers like New Orleans had become home to the greatest concentration of wealth in the United States. Slavery shaped the culture and society of the South, which rested on a racial ideology of white supremacy.

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