WALTON/ROCKOFF, Chapter 14:

1. Summarize the "Beard?Hacker" thesis of the effects of the Civil War on the
Northern economy.

2. Summarize the criticisms of the "Beard?Hacker" thesis.

3. Summarize the effects of the Civil War on the southern economy.
What were the main causes of the decline of the southern economy?

4. How did land ownership change in the South after the Civil War?

5. How did the system of "sharecropping" work?
What were the advantages and disadvantages of sharecropping?
Why was the system of sharecropping adopted?

6. What is meant by the "debt peonage" of the ex-slaves?