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FACTS AND FIGURES: After the War

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Facts and Figures during during reconstruction, post civil war:
 

Vermont
Union State

Though manufacturing grew in some parts of Vermont, agriculture remained important. During Reconstruction, the state experienced a loss of labor, as Vermonters migrated West.
 
     1860  1870
   Number of Farms  30,976  33,827
   Value of Farm Land  $94.3 million  $139.4 million
   Number of Factories  1,883  3,270
   Value of Manufactured Products  $14.6 million  $32.2 million
 

Data source: University of Virginia Geospatial and Statistical Data Center. United States Historical Census Data Browser.
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/census/

 

 

 

Massachusetts
Union State

Massachusetts was one of the most industrialized states before the war and remained so afterwards, with Boston continuing to act as a magnet for massive European immigration. The agricultural economy that remained revolved around small family farms.
 
     1860  1870
   Number of Farms  35,556  26,500
   Value of Farm Land  $123.3 million  $116.4 million
   Number of Factories  8,176  13,212
   Value of Manufactured Products  $255.5 million  $553.9 million
 

Data source: University of Virginia Geospatial and Statistical Data Center. United States Historical Census Data Browser.
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/census/

 

 

Georgia
Confederate State

Wartime destruction and a subsequent economic depression forced many of the state's rice plantations into bankruptcy. New railroad lines and commercial fertilizers increased cotton cultivation in Georgia's upcountry, but rice growers never recovered, and the state's coastal plantation homes, as Northerner Edward King reported,were abandoned "like sorrowful ghosts lamenting the past." However, freed slaves found more landowning opportunities in lowcountry Georgia.
 
     1860  1870
   Number of Farms  53,897  69,956
   Value of Farm Land  $157.1 million  $94.6 million
   Number of Factories  1,890  3,836
   Value of Manufactured Products  $16.9 million  $31.2 million
 

Data source: University of Virginia Geospatial and Statistical Data Center. United States Historical Census Data Browser.
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/census/
 

 

 

Mississippi
Confederate State

Mississippi attempted to modernize its plantation economy after the end of slavery. The legislature enacted policies to attract Northern capital, including huge land grants to railroads, and almost no taxes for railroads and other corporations.
 
     1860  1870
   Number of Farms  37,007  68,023
   Value of Farm Land  $190.8 million  $81.7 million
   Number of Factories  976  1,731
   Value of Manufactured Products  $6.6 million  $8.2 million
 

Data source: University of Virginia Geospatial and Statistical Data Center. United States Historical Census Data Browser.
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/census/
 

 

 

 

 

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