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What did the Reconstruction have on agriculture and
industry in the South

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Answer:

During Reconstruction, many small white farmers, thrown into poverty by the war, entered into cotton production, a major change from prewar days when they concentrated on growing food for their own families.

Step-by-step explanation:

Sharecropping dominated the cotton and tobacco South, while wage labor was the rule on sugar plantations.

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