In the paragraphs of chapter 4 it’s all about right after the civil war and the effects placed on the south. The economic status of the south was poor. This was due to the fact during the war everything was burned and destroyed from Sherman’s march. This also was a great cause to death within the south and people lost everything they had during the civil war. The south had to be rebuilt from the bottom up and they had to learn a whole new way of living/thinking. The agriculture faced many hard struggles that would have to face for many years to come. While the south was struggling agriculturally the north tried to take advantage of the straggles. Yet they start to gain the mindset of the south with the fact they weren’t happy with free men …show more content…
The south did this in a fight to hold power over the freemen and it was effect way to prevent the freemen to gain power or move up in society. This all was in the start with black codes and work laws. The south made laws that made mirrors of the freemen to work for free under white employment. The south also enforced these through the police or law enforcement. The fact was that all law enforcement was white and which led to bitterness from them towards the freemen population. There was a bias side that the fact whites weren’t charged for the same crimes as the freemen were charged with. The south didn’t just use the power of laws to hold and oppress the freemen they also used the power of taxation. The south also didn’t want the freemen to gain any type of education as a whole so they came up with ways to prevent them from receiving an education. After a while the south was forced to elimated all laws only held against the blacks but they still endorsed them against the blacks. The south was fighting to hold on to their old was and the image of slavery. Yet the government was working on making a new south with the help of building railroads. The south struggle with all the change and becoming to understand how things work without